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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by donkeyd on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:08AM (#36682099)
> worth considering that utility, government, and infrastructure software may be under different kinds of constraints than what you're used to.

I worked on a government project where new software was being built on COBOL because they had those devs available. No commercial company in their right mind would build any new applications in COBOL, but government is a different animal.

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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by rincebrain on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @07:29PM (#36688548)
New projects, perhaps not.

But given the number of COBOL platforms available that have dwindling numbers of maintainers, someone with that skillset can demand a very decent chunk now, I'm told.

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