On Sunday 28 October 2018 21.57:42 andre_debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > www.engadget.com/2018/10/28/ibm-buys-red-hat/ > > Is it a good new ? > Can this new make reviving Linux in the public market, > or only in the professional cloud market ? > > André I don't know. It's better that IBM buys than others, I guess. When Novell bought SuSE the results were not so bad. However I never liked Red Hat that much, so the question for me is rather what effect it will have on Gnome and systemd dominance. Luckily (I hope) no one can buy Debian... As to Linux in the public market, it could be good for Linux in administrations, they would like the IBM backing. For the "average user" the reasons to prefer Windows are different: closed source (and only one system) makes drivers more available, games, and MS Office... Thierry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
