On 10/28/18 6:38 PM, Leander Hutton wrote:
On 10/28/18 6:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to this
list:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html
Red Hat owns and funds a lot of projects. I use Ansible on a daily basis
(along with Fedora). I wonder what's going to happen with those. GNOME
is largely funded by RH IIRC too, I use KDE these days myself. Depending
on what products of Red Hat's IBM is interested in there could be some
forking here soon. Of course IBM could also let Red Hat be Red Hat and
just collect the checks. Who knows right now.
IBM ruined Lotus. Sears ruined Lands' End.
I do not see anything positive coming from this, unless Fedora
completely spins off.
RHEL is defunct, out-of-date garbage, so I see IBM slowly
closing that project down as it wont support their new code
and sticking with cloud services and such. I do not see
them support anything that does not directly affect their
immediate bottom line, especially with the financial hit
IBM took acquiring Red Hat.
I hope they leave qemu-kvm alone and spin it off as well.
I wonder if this will affect Libre Office as Red Hat
does some of LO's funding too.
Feels weird man. Love me some IBM buckling spring keyboards (typing this
on a '86 Model M) but I don't want them in my OS.
When it finally breaks, look up Unicomp. They have excellent buckling
spring keyboards. (I am typing on one right now.)
Leander
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