IBM acquires Red Hat

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by awill on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:53PM (#18322733)

This announcement made me really sad. Red Hat was a company I admired.

I guess the only silver lining is that the buyer wasn't Oracle.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by RandomTisk on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:00PM (#18323743)

Ditto, I can almost guarantee I'll be in a meeting in the week or two where my directors will want to discuss the possibility of moving off of Redhat, at least as a contingency plan.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by btown on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:00PM (#18323166)

Obligatory link to one of the best rants ever presented against Oracle as an acquirer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=34m

"Do not fall into the trap... of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison... If you put your hand inside a lawnmower, it will get chopped off. The lawnmower doesn't care... The lawnmower doesn't want to kill open source. The lawnmower just can't think about open source. The lawnmower can't have empathy."

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by _emacsomancer_ on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:38PM (#18323907)

Or Microsoft (who, after all, <heart>s Linux).

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