TLDR: Zlatans opinions are correct and offer insight from his perspective. However, what is missing (absolutely deliberately) is the other side of the story. Zlatans post reveals him to be a diabolical back stabbing snake with no morals and no loyalty. I also wanted to penalize him on his personal integrity as well .... buuuut .... I must give him a sliver there because at least he is not hiding under anonymity and is owning his own words (whilst I will be hiding under anonymity and wearing the jedi cowl of master hypocrite for tonight).

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Okay I have to bite on this one. God how I hate utopian idealists.

What hurts the most reading the interview is that I used be him at his age. I used to share 100% of those views, I gossiped behind peoples backs and had little understanding of morality, loyalty and personal integrity. I hope I have learned something over the years, albeit, my employees may still not agree.

Look, the whole thing comes down to the monkey problem:

Have you ever started a business from scratch? Somehow figured out how to grow it even for a little while? No? Have you had to make sure that staff and vendors are paid week in and week out? Have you had to make sure that your taxes and payroll remittance are up to date? No? How about starting up a business in a niche of a niche of a niche (consumer oriented phone / laptop / other selling only to open source and free software nut jobs that have no jobs, no money and never pay for anything and a product that is ABSOLUTELY something they don't need and can get cheaper elsewhere at 100% market penetration with infinite options, feature and accessories)? No?

Now, take all of that and add the following: the business must be run by a monkey that shares %99.8 of its genome with a chimpanzee. Oh, it must also be staffed by monkeys, it's vendors are monkeys, it's accountants are monkeys, the laws you follow are made by monkeys AAAAAAANNDDDD ... are you ready for this? Your clients are .... ALSO MONKEYS!

My god. There is a whole other world on the other side of the looking glass most employees will NEVER EVER understand.

Is Zlatans opinion true? Sure. Why not. Quite probably 100%. But here is the thing. Reading that interview, 100% of my employees would have written that about me in every single company I started. ALL employees of ALL companies on planet earth EVER IN HISTORY would write what Zlatan wrote verbatim about their bosses and orgs. Man, if you have any frickin brains and have had a chance to observe, 100% of all businesses and organizations are NOTHING BUT rolling disasters (McNealy had a better joke about this, but I digress). We are all just a bunch of goddamned monkeys making our way through this as best as we can.

You. Me. Everyone.

And this is what rubs my rhubarb about Zlatans words: The fact that a monkey chimp named Todd managed to start a business to sell things no one needs to monkeys that (literally) have NEVER EVER IN THE LAST 25 YEARS supported ANY open source / free software company financially in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM and has managed to stay in business is a fucking miracle. And, don't you dare bring up Red Hat, Mark Shuttleworth or any other financially sustainable open source project. They were 100% all funded by either rich people or rich for profit organizations. You bunch of freeloaders have not spent a dime on anything. I know, because I am one of you.

The FACT that Purism even exists is a goddamned miracle. You know what else is a miracle? Pinephone. Love those guys will be ordering one soon. You know what else is a miracle? Pyra Handheld. I have a few on order of those as well. There are no enemies here, only miracles.

We live in a time of miracles.

I just wanted to lean in a bit on my yacht and put my stogie out on Zlatans dingy. His post, indeed, shows all of the flaws of Purism. However, what it does better is shine a spotlight on Zlatans true nature. A back stabbing, gossiping, disloyal crab in a bucket that needs to be thrown back in the water for a few more seasons.

He is not ready to play just yet.

Oh, also, this post isn't really abut Purism. That is just the cherry on top. I have been wondering why the Debian organization was starting to rot from the inside out over the last handful of years. We got rid of the main social problems in Debian many years ago around the time Ubuntu came on the scene by helping push those idiots over to Ubuntu. The stench is back and now we know why. We have a new batch of infection that needs to be taken care of. Thanks for showing your true colours (sue me, I am Canadian) Zlatan.