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I wonder if this the core of Redhat knowing that the clock is ticking, and make sure that critical software that they worked on is available in an open fashion.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
I wonder if this the core of Redhat knowing that the clock is ticking, and make sure that critical software that they worked on is available in an open fashion. One only has to look at Sun and MySQL to see what can happen to a once vibrant open source offering after acquisition.
- shykes 8y agoI don't understand this line of thinking. IBM has plenty of people contributing to open-source projects. I wouldn't be surprised if they contributed to etcd even before the acquisition. When it comes to their open-source track record, IBM and Oracle are nothing alike.
- moosingin3space 8y agoRed Hat does not own anything that's valuable aside from their developers, who chose to work at Red Hat due to their pro-FOSS positioning. If IBM chose to start shutting projects like Fedora down or move in the direction of closed-source, these developers would have no desire to remain, and would leave, making that $40B acquisition worthless.
- rbetts 8y agoRed Hat has extensive customer relationships, customer databases, contracts for future revenue, partnerships, operational processes, . . . product IP is just a slice of the pie.
- crb 8y agoIt was proposed in July (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/136 https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/136) and voted on in September (https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/143 https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/143), all before the IBM/Red Hat deal was announced or known to the staff. The announcement was held for publicity at KubeCon.