On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:56:45PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 10/28/18 10:18 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was
always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat it,
because it was doing well. Anyway, the ultimate decision now is up to
Red Hat shareholders. Why would they say no though? They bought the
stock to make money, this is their big pay day.
Ultimately, that's the horrible thing about capitalism. Things only
exist for monetary reasons, they don't really exist to do what the
product is for.
And you can say it about anything. e.g. The commercial phone companies
don't exist for people to be able to communicate (what their customers
consider their primary purpose to be). They're there to make money and
it really doesn't care how well the communications aspect of it works.
"Capitalism" is an insult term made up by Marxists to describe the
Free Market, which is "the free and open exchange of goods and
services between consenting parties". Under the Free Market, to meet
your
own needs, you must meet the the needs of your customers.
Your description of communications customers only caring about money
falls apart. If the service stinks, folks go elsewhere. As a
small businessman, I can tell you that if I do not meet the needs
of my customers, I STARVE. I live it and breath it. I am only
rewarded for meeting my customers needs.
Red Hat has every right to sell itself to IBM, as Lands' End had every
right to sell itself to Sears. And I have every right to look elsewhere
for someone else that will meet my needs.
I hope Fedora survives this. If not, someone else will pick up
the slack.
+1
I couldn't have put it better ..
Plus: AFAIK IBM is still heavily interested in Linux. [1]
IBM seems to know how to run a business. And they seem to make lots of
money with Linux. All this makes me hopeful that RedHat/Fedora becomes
more focused on users and customers. Simply because their new boss
says so ... :)
And the whole merger seems to make sense: Fedora with their new cloud
targeted Silverblue distro might connect well with IBM's Hybrid Cloud.
Before reading about the acquisition I was rather sure to overwrite my
installed Fedora with another Linux, before mid-2019, when Fedora's
image based upgrades will arrive as the default Fedora Workstation
OS. At least parts of this image based system will be read-write
protected as it is planned - IIUC - for the Silverblue image based
OS. I read the rpm-based Fedora system might still be available. But I
don't like to be surprised with immutable system parts on Linux, so
just to be on the safe side I planned a change in the months coming
...
With that acquisition tho' I'll wait a little and see. And I might
even wait a little longer before migrating somewhere else ...
Wolfgang
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/567099/
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