[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> My greatest concern is the loss of that commitment to the GPL as a
> driving force behind all things in Linux-land. IBM is married to making
> money. RedHat has been married to making money with GPL software. 

...amen.  Even beyond "enterprisey" stuff RH has been the by far single 
largest corporate contributor to/funder of a very long tail of Free 
Software.  Especially the desktop stack.  [1]

RH's general approach to things has been to take a very long-term 
view.  Bring all expertise in-house, and where none is to be found, 
develop it internally because that may pay off starting in RHEL N+2.

IBM, on the other hand, repeatedly demonstrates a somewhat different 
approach to planning, developing, and retaining domain expertise.

[1] I don't mean GNOME or any specific environment; but plumbing work 
    like graphics/sound/printing, misc integration, plus a massive 
    amount of funding for Fedora that goes well beyond what they need 
    to keep RHEL going.  

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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