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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by p-e-w on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:34AM (#47612489)
I was shocked when IBM acquired Red Hat a few years ago. I had silently assumed at the time that Red Hat was far bigger than IBM nowadays, so the reverse would have made more sense to me.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by freedomben on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:08AM (#47613336)
Google was apparently in the running for acquiring Red Hat. I still wonder what Red Hat would be today if Google had acquired instead.
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by mghackerlady on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:12AM (#47614035)
much, much worse
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by freedomben on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:20AM (#47614133)
Yes I agree, given the direction G has been going. I was disappointed at the time, but it was probably a blessing in disguise
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm by mghackerlady on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:28AM (#47614994)
honestly I think it's a net positive (for me at least) because it ensures Fedora has great POWER support (I'll never be able to afford a POWER machine at this rate, but the architecture is an absolute pleasure to work with whenever I have to)
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