On 10/28/18 6:38 PM, Leander Hutton wrote:
On 10/28/18 6:49 PM, 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-...
Red Hat owns and funds a lot of projects. I use Ansible on a daily basis (along with Fedora). I wonder what's going to happen with those. GNOME is largely funded by RH IIRC too, I use KDE these days myself. Depending on what products of Red Hat's IBM is interested in there could be some forking here soon. Of course IBM could also let Red Hat be Red Hat and just collect the checks. Who knows right now.
IBM ruined Lotus. Sears ruined Lands' End.
I do not see anything positive coming from this, unless Fedora completely spins off.
RHEL is defunct, out-of-date garbage, so I see IBM slowly closing that project down as it wont support their new code and sticking with cloud services and such. I do not see them support anything that does not directly affect their immediate bottom line, especially with the financial hit IBM took acquiring Red Hat.
I hope they leave qemu-kvm alone and spin it off as well.
I wonder if this will affect Libre Office as Red Hat does some of LO's funding too.
Feels weird man. Love me some IBM buckling spring keyboards (typing this on a '86 Model M) but I don't want them in my OS.
When it finally breaks, look up Unicomp. They have excellent buckling spring keyboards. (I am typing on one right now.)
Leander