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I saw some redhat people at a Linux conf and they scared me. Like they were all giddy on some cult koolaid. And they were actually strutting around wearing red

• neilv 6y ago
  Alan Cox was sometimes seen with a red hat, and he's about as far from traditional blue tie as one could get. :) Enthusiasm, and a bit of counterculture in the mix, seems like a good sign for the long-term health of the organization, IMHO. BTW, Linux conferences at least used to be very social events, for developers who'd only been interacting online in text, to get together. Maybe people were just really happy to be there.
• GekkePrutser 6y ago
  They always wear the hats at trade shows, it's just their promotional thing... It gives them easy recognisability, after all trade shows are all about marketing. They give them away too (but not the same quality as the ones they wear). That giddy thing is also a tradeshow thing, some companies really pump their employees that work at these things, but they're not normally like that :) Only if you know someone well enough you can get real info. The real communication at these tradeshows is not done in the booths but in back rooms and coffee corners. The front booths are just marketing with some low level PR staff.