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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by bmicklea on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:29AM (#20391472)
Red Hat's commitments to the open source projects it works on from linux, to kubernetes, to java, and many others will remain unchanged.
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by DocTomoe on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:21AM (#20391991)
Without a timeframe, that statement is worthless.

And that timeframe might be shorter than you'd think. My guess would be "days".

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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by babarock on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:37PM (#20395176)
> And that timeframe might be shorter than you'd think. My guess would be "days".

Any evidence to back up your guess, or is it just the hunch of some dude on the internet?

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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by rleigh on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:24PM (#20404799)
Unless those commitments are in the form of formal contracts, written down, then I would not place a great deal of faith in them. Unless they have legal obligations to abide by them, then IBM don't need to keep them.
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by baybal2 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:31AM (#20391489)
I hope so, but how will IBM make money then?
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by kryptiskt on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:40AM (#20391585)
Red Hat is already making money with the current business model.
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