[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Solomon Peachy]

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
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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