[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Simba]

In the real world, everything you said is wrong.

If you don't want to be wrong about everything all the time you should
avoid making sweeping generalizations about hundreds of millions or
billions of unique individual people.

Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
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"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

On 10/29/18 9:16 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 09:01:36AM -0400, Simba via Ale wrote:
>> With all due respect, I can't take your opinions seriously when you say
>> philosophy doesn't matter. Our entire nation was built on philosophy.
>> Our government serves the people and purposes of that nation.
> 
> Businesses don't give a whit about philosophy.  They want results, for 
> the least short-term cost possible.  For longer-term costs, that's what 
> insurance and support contracts are for.  Defined up-front known costs 
> that can be budgeted and planned around.
> 
>> Anyhow there's additional reasons, for example the ease of upgrading
>> Debian based systems.
> 
> In the real world, nobody upgrades systems in-place.  They are instead 
> replaced wholesale when the hardware reaches its end-of-life, or the 
> applications require more capabilities.  And thanks to the rise of VMs, 
> relatively ancient systems are sticking around longer than ever, because 
> the software isn't tied to the hardware any more..  (this is especially 
> true with IBM!)
> 
>  - Solomon
>