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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by TheRealDunkirk on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:44AM (#18326354)
> 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.)

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by bubblethink on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:56PM (#18330186)
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.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by dexterous on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:50AM (#18335992)
> Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence

Could you expand on that? I'm curious.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by bubblethink on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:27PM (#18339117)
Fedora is upstream for RHEL. RHEL is made up of several Fedora releases. Fedora is also the testing ground for RHEL.
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