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It's Redhat, whose focus has always been enterprise the money maker. Ever since it dumped the desktop years ago, I switched to the deb ecosystem and never look

by ausjke 10y ago

It's Redhat, whose focus has always been enterprise the money maker. Ever since it dumped the desktop years ago, I switched to the deb ecosystem and never looked back, do not want to have anything to do with Redhat,including this openshift thing, one reason is for the "dump-the-desktop"(please don't mention Fedora), another is that, DEB is so much better than RPM for my daily life. I also hate the Redhat-intrusively-forced-on-SystemD to my heart. That been said, I appreciate what Redhat have been doing to the open source, I guess it is win-win for the community and its own business goals.

ausjke 10y ago
By the way, my 2017 wildest forecast: Microsoft may acquire Redhat
- dralley 10y ago
  Red Hat is to some extent protected from acquisition by the ideological poison pill. Because there's no IP (open source), the value of the company is basically the engineering talent, which enables the level of service Red Hat provides. Many of those engineers have very strong opinions about FOSS. The second a Microsoft (or worse, an Oracle) tried to acquire Red Hat, a huge portion of that talent would walk out the door.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - nl 10y ago
    No, the value of RH is in the clients they have, just like every enterprise software company ever. Oracle is notorious for buying companies for their clients, even if everyone quits (eg, hostile takeover of Sieble)
- nul_byte 10y ago
  There is more chance of the pope converting to Islam, then MS acquiring Red Hat. That is one acquisition that would turn to shit over night, and MS would be left with just some logos, as the companies main assets (its engineering) would all walk out the door, followed by customers not renewing subscriptions.
  - jacques_chester 10y ago
    The Microsoft and Red Hat subscriber bases would have massive overlap.
  - braderhart 10y ago
    It's 2017. Pope converted to Islam and Trump got elected. Didn't you hear?
- braderhart 10y ago
  2017 forecast... Microsoft acquires Canonical.
  - ausjke 10y ago
    that will be the worst, please don't, of course we still have debian.
    - braderhart 10y ago
      I've moved to Arch. They can have Debian too.

by ausjke 10y ago

ausjke 10y ago

By the way, my 2017 wildest forecast: Microsoft may acquire Redhat

dralley 10y ago
Red Hat is to some extent protected from acquisition by the ideological poison pill. Because there's no IP (open source), the value of the company is basically the engineering talent, which enables the level of service Red Hat provides. Many of those engineers have very strong opinions about FOSS. The second a Microsoft (or worse, an Oracle) tried to acquire Red Hat, a huge portion of that talent would walk out the door.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- nl 10y ago
  No, the value of RH is in the clients they have, just like every enterprise software company ever. Oracle is notorious for buying companies for their clients, even if everyone quits (eg, hostile takeover of Sieble)
nul_byte 10y ago
There is more chance of the pope converting to Islam, then MS acquiring Red Hat. That is one acquisition that would turn to shit over night, and MS would be left with just some logos, as the companies main assets (its engineering) would all walk out the door, followed by customers not renewing subscriptions.
- jacques_chester 10y ago
  The Microsoft and Red Hat subscriber bases would have massive overlap.
- braderhart 10y ago
  It's 2017. Pope converted to Islam and Trump got elected. Didn't you hear?
braderhart 10y ago
2017 forecast... Microsoft acquires Canonical.
- ausjke 10y ago
  that will be the worst, please don't, of course we still have debian.
  - braderhart 10y ago
    I've moved to Arch. They can have Debian too.