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[Jim Kinney]

And of course no one uses the $0 version CentOS since it's too hard to
use without an expensive consultant to do all the work.
RH made $2.9B last year because it works very well. If all one needs is
a couple of one-off machines, any distro will do. Once you hit the high
hundreds to thousands, the need for a very stable, well supported base
OS becomes crystal clear. RedHat started out *simplifying* things for
the large scale, enterprise IT shop. Not the commands but the overall
operation of the systems. Is release 1.0 always baked fully? Nope. The
joke has always been "upgrade when X.2 comes out". Still is pretty
true. Admin's poke at the new release until X.2 then start the
upgrade/replacement.
Of course RedHat never published any of the documentation on line for
$0 ( https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/ )
Other distros have a different focus. 
I'm *hoping* IBM won't screw it up but they probably will.
On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 15:13 -0500, Rich Roberts via Ale wrote:
> "Redhat, as it existed before the buyout, was all about complexifying
> Linux to increase their consultation and training profit."
>   You really think RH could make 2 billion in revenue last year
> consulting and training on their operating system? Its kubernetes,
> open ledger, middleware, etc. IBM would build their own or buy a
> cheap one, if they just needed an operating system. They are trying
> to make up for the fact that their cloud offering sucks, get some
> good linux engineers, and get a foot into even more enterprise
> doors. 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:13 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:36:41 -0500
> > 
> > DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On 11/5/18 10:31 AM, David Millians via Ale wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > 
> > > > Because after last night's "bombshell" I'd really like to hear
> > some
> > 
> > > > chat... _______________________________________________  
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > That KDE is being dropped from Redhat in ... 6 yrs?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > LOL, KDE and Redhat. If there have ever been two projects that
> > deserved
> > 
> > each other, it's those two. In 2012 banished all KDE executables
> > and
> > 
> > libraries from my computers because KDE is a monolithically
> > entangled
> > 
> > mess. Three years later I banished all systemd from my computer for
> > the
> > 
> > exact same reason.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Redhat, as it existed before the buyout, was all about
> > complexifying
> > 
> > Linux to increase their consultation and training profit. Those
> > motives
> > 
> > should have incentivised Redhat to keep KDE,and perhaps make it
> > even
> > 
> > more complex.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Perhaps this is our first clue that IBM's Redhat doesn't need or
> > want
> > 
> > complexification. If so, the future of systemd becomes, um,
> > interesting.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Stay tuned.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
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