Re: Red Hat, IBM, and Fedora

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On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:17 PM Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:57:26 -0400,
>   Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >If you have questions or would like to learn more about today’s news, I
> >encourage you to review the materials below. For any questions not
> >answered here, please feel free to contact us. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright
> >will host an online Q&A session in the coming days where you can ask
> >questions you may have about what the acquisition means for Red Hat and
> >our involvement in open source communities. Details will be announced
> >on the Red Hat blog.
>
> Are we likely to get more resources for powerpc work?

Unlikely.

> One way IBM seems to be trying to gain market share for power is by tauting
> its openness compared to Intel and AMD processors which are only supported
> along with co-processors acting against the interests of the owner of
> the processors to support DRM in the consumer market. This would seem to
> make supporting power a good fit for Fedora.

Fedora already supports power.  In fact, IBM has been helping to drive
Fedora on Power for years and has donated a significant portion of
hardware and people time towards that.

josh
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