Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

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On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:02:32 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/29/18 8:12 AM, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Wonderfully stated.  The announcement took my breath away.  I hope
> Fedora gets spun off.

Unlike the IBM of today, Redhat was not really your average capitalist enterprise so they supported Fedora. They had a long view which is not permitted by markets.....In any case, I doubt that Fedora or OSS is an example of any kind of capitalism. A good place to start looking for that would be Somalia.


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