I have to admit, I think Marc Fleury is awesome. He's a difficult personality at times, but a straight shooter and did a fantastic job building one of the world's most successful open source companies.
But Marc, this presentation [Streaming Video] from JavaPolis is a bit over the top. Not the message, which I agree with (and think Marc is refreshing with how he calls "foul" on some of the practices open source companies use). But the medium....
Dressing up like Flavor Flav? My CEO has a super-embarrassing ring tone ("Wipe Out!" at 3 billion decibels), but I'd take that any day to "the Flav" showing up for work. :-)
All that said, try to get beyond Marc's stagemanship in this presentation to listen to what he's saying. He knows what he's talking about. And he made enough money putting his talk into practice to not need to care one bit whether I like how he dresses.
Posted by Matt Asay on January 27, 2007 05:42 PM
