Re:IBM acquires Red Hat
by TheRealDunkirk on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:44AM
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> I would say that Fedora and CentOS aren't going away anywhere.
That was the sentiment regarding OpenSolaris when Oracle bought Sun... (And I can't believe no one's mentioned this in 800+ comments so far.)
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat
by bubblethink on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:56PM
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OpenSolaris came after regular Solaris. It was a retroactive opening of code, and wasn't as essential to regular Solaris. In contrast, Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence. CentOS is not that instrumental, but it's not a major cost sink either. It used to be community driven earlier and can become so again. i.e., Unless they go out of their way to do something malicious, which would have little payoff anyway.
> Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence
Could you expand on that? I'm curious.
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat
by bubblethink on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:27PM
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Fedora is upstream for RHEL. RHEL is made up of several Fedora releases. Fedora is also the testing ground for RHEL.
I would say that Fedora and CentOS aren't going away anywhere. Not because of this anyway. There were similar concerns around RH's acquisition (if that's what you call it) of CentOS a couple of years ago, but things have largely been the same. And it's mostly for selfish reasons. The overall dev mindshare of RH based systems has shrunk compared to Ubuntu. So anything that moves people away from Ubuntu to the RH ecosystem is net win because eventually some corp will write a check when they need support. It's the same idea as MS not going after pirates just to increase MS's overall market share.