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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by brozaman on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:37AM (#35337997)
> 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.

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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by pxc on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:50AM (#35338115)
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.

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