By Liam Proven
Publication Date: 2026-02-08 12:30:00
Opinion The real enemy of digital sovereignty is “enterprise IT” marketing, according to a Red Hat engineer who entertainingly railed against the repeated waves of bullshit unleashed by the industry’s hype cycle.
During a coffee break at this year’s CentOS Connect conference, The reg The FOSS desk paused to chat with a developer who was surprised but happy to see us there. We’re not mentioning them by name – we’re sure they’d rather keep their jobs than enjoy a moment of glory – but we really enjoyed their succinct summary of how IT has faced repeated waves of corporate bullshit for at least 15 years, and how they’re keenly and enthusiastically anticipating a large-scale financial collapse that will burst the AI bubble.
This vulture has been in tech for around 38 years, and the Linux developer we spoke to has been in the industry for almost as long. We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly the decade or so period beginning in the early 1990s – was largely…
