> Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens in many acquisitions?
OK, my previous comment was an overstatement. This is what's happening.
That makes more sense. It's still sad to hear. As an outsider, Red Hat always stood out to me as a truly special company. Too few 'open-source' enterprises have figured out how to profitably develop F/OSS in a principled way, without the 'open core' bait-and-switch.
It's just the tech company circle of life, I guess. I wonder what younger tech company might play a similar role as Red Hat has another 30 years from now, and if they even exist yet.
They will just make it PITA to use if you're not on Red Hat.
They murdered RHV, that's a good start.
Red Hat murdered RHV without IBM's help (sad to say).
Was that pre IBM? If so, I stand corrected!
It was after but like for CentOS Stream the writing had been on the wall long enough; both rwmj and I are in the virtualization team.
There was hardly any new feature between RHV 4.3 (early 2019) and 4.4 (2020, last non-maintenance release) and there literally wasn't time for IBM to say anything about RHV 4.4, considering that feature work for 4.4 would have started before the acquisition (July 2019).
Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens in many acquisitions?