I feel as though I've been kicked in the back of the neck.....by Bruce Lee! I don't presume to know the first thing about corporations, mergers, and long term financials,.... And while Red Hat was a corporation per se.....I've always loved Fedora for being different, for being the odd distro that was backed by a major corporation ....but was still able to support itself independently. Now? I'm just "leery". I don't know what plans IBM has for their new found "toy".....& I'd rather not be surprised as others have said. So the question is:
Are there any .rpm-based distros that would make a good replacement for Fedora?....
Heartbroken in the world of Open Source.
EGO II
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 11:05 AM Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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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