On 10/29/18 11:52 AM, Walter H. wrote: > On 28.10.2018 23:49, 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 >> >> >> poc >> > I guess this won't affect anything on the development of Fedora, RHEL, > CentOS, Scientific Linux > this might be a chance to have RHEL on IBM Main Frames ... Do big IBM (or any) mainframes still exist? Fedora is the "bleeding edge" development arm of RHEL. Eventually, once enough changes have been made and stabilized in Fedora, it becomes the next release of RHEL. We Fedora users are just the lab rats and a giant, very vocal and fairly sophisticated bunch of beta testers. CentOS is built off the RHEL source tree. It's rebranded, but it is essentially RHEL (but free and without direct RedHat support to users). Now, will any of this change? Likely, but due to the various copyright and patent prohibitions (GPL, Apache license, etc.), IBM couldn't lock down the guts of Linux. They might not put any of their "enhancements" in the wild, but.... On the flip side, if IBM follows the example of, oh, say Tata in its acquisition of Jaguar Cars, this might not be a horrible thing. Tata, fortunately, took the view that "We at Tata know how to build trucks and forklifts. Jaguar, you know how to design and build cars, so you do that and share the profits with us." So far, that's worked out fairly successfully for Jaguar and Tata. If IBM takes a hands-off approach similar to what Tata did, this might not be that horrible. Only time will tell. Am I scared? A bit, but I can wait. There are alternatives out there. I'd hate to switch...I've been a RedHat/Fedora user for a LONG time (since Red Hat 3, I think). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
