IBM to aquire Red Hat

[oldBastard]

IBM to aquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion

 

[OCP]

Oh crap.

Bye bye CentOS :-(

 

[access]

Oh crap.

Bye bye CentOS :-(

hello junos?

 

[OCP]

hello junos?

Junos <> CentOS

Lots of other distro's out there but some of us have been using CentOS for many many years as it is rock solid.

 

[shadow_man]

IBM to buy Red Hat - it's a sad day....

https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-buying-open-source-specialist-red-hat-34-billion/
https://www.redhat.com/en

 

[Grubscrew]

Why?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Why?

Because Money.

What other reason would there be?

 

[OCP]

Why?

IBM is a very large patent holding company that likes to make lots and lots of money.

RH has been a massive contributor to open source.

This is likely going to change as the decisions at RH will now be dictated by board members who look at dividends first.

I would not be surprised if CentOS will be affected negatively very soon.

 

[poffle]

sad indeed. IBM are one of the KAKEST companies i have seen. wish they would keel over with their useless services

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

so who else still subscribes to the open source model?

cannonical with ubuntu?

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Didn't IBM also buy SuSE Linux?

 

[Lupus]

Didn't IBM also buy SuSE Linux?

Nope

 

[WireFree]

SUSE is still German.

 

[creeper]

Thank goodness it was IBM. It could have been Oracle. Lesser of two evils.

 

[Wall]

this is not good news

 

[ginggs]

IBM + Red Hat = Big Blue Hat

 

[sajunky]

Microsoft tried to overpower Ubuntu with Canonical plug.
Why IBM shouldn't do the same in a formal way?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Microsoft tried to overpower Ubuntu with Canonical plug.
Why IBM shouldn't do the same in a formal way?

English if you please?

 

[Johnatan56]

English if you please?

Don't try and argue, Mr/Ms Sajunky is always right, you just don't understand his language as it's too advanced for our feeble minds.

 

[sajunky]

Canonical is your pain?