Remembering Stormix
Reminiscing about my days at Progeny has me thinking back even further to Stormix Technologies. As a commercial venture, Stormix was a disaster, with an especially virulent strain of dot-com fever infecting everyone. Still, I'll always remember it as my first professional introduction both to free software and general management practices, as well as a snapshot of a surreal time in technology history.
Through that summer, I happily submerged myself in learning GNU/Linux and putting the rudiments of a manual together as the company grew. Having just come off a two year stint documenting ever-changing human resources software, I couldn't believe that I was getting paid to enjoy myself so much. The BASH shell alone was a wonder, let alone the rudimentary versions of KDE and GNOME that existed then.
Since I was eager to prove myself and was the first non-developer to sign on, I soon started commenting on the still vague plans for the release of Storm Linux. I commented so often and in such detail that, by mid-August, when Garth returned to the University of Waterloo to finish his computer science degree (I thought him insane to desert such a going concern as Stormix), and Dean Wadsworth and Randall Donald had joined the company, David Talmor asked me to become the company's business manager.
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