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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by jbob2000 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:31AM (#20391484)
Open source doesn't make money, you're at IBM now to save their failing cloud business. If you can't do that, expect your time on open source to dry up.
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by bmicklea on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:39AM (#20391581)
Open source creates market share, that's the foundation on which money can be made. Red Hat's business model wasn't charging for the open software, it was charging for the expertise we have in supporting that open software. The more market share the open source software has, the greater the monetary opportunity for us and the more we can put back into the communities. Red Hat has offices in ~40 countries and IBM is in ~175. That's a lot more touch points for us.
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by rwmj on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:13AM (#20391919)
Open source absolutely does make Red Hat money, billions of dollars a year.
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by jbob2000 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:08PM (#20394079)
Open source doesn't make them that money, servicing open source does.
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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by babarock on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:54PM (#20394672)
How will they service open source if they stop funding its development?

I'm assuming that you're implying that's what IBM wants?

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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by jcmoscon on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:03PM (#20394005)
>Open source doesn't make money Well $34B is a lot of money!
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