<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Back to the beginning of this thread to escape opinions (mine included).</div><div><br></div><div>For many ALE'rs, this will have no immediate impact. For those of us using or interacting with RHEL systems, this is being viewed as a very questionable thing for the continuity of RedHat philosophy. Doesn't matter what people think about rpm's, systemd, elf binaries, etc, RedHat has been a driving force in the Linux and GPL ecosystem.</div><div><br></div><div>Notice I said GPL and NOT open source. That was deliberate. RedHat would take their $$$ and buy a product/process that was not GPL'ed, clean up the codebase of all incompatible cruft, clean-room code to backfill, and then release it under the GPL. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Satellite server was a DoD contract spec'ed to use Oracle. RedHat spent some serious cash to disconnect Spacewalk (the community upstream version of satellite server) from Oracle and make it work well on PostgreSQL.</div><div><br></div><div>I just can't see IBM doing anything like that.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 19:21 -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>IBM is buying Redhat!</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-1-hybrid-cloud-provider">https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-1-hybrid-cloud-provider</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>RHT is currently $116.68/sh.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>"IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of</pre><pre>open source cloud software, announced today that the companies have</pre><pre>reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the</pre><pre>issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in</pre><pre>cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion."</pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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