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Every single thread someone has to bring it up. The acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM. There is
by klohto 7y ago
Every single thread someone has to bring it up. The acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM.
There is more than enough people who have their own minds. That is the RH culture, if this freedom is touched they will just quit.
IBM won’t affect RH in any way, Jim is not an idiot because he knows this would destroy RH and IBM are also not idiots because it would destroy they purchase.
- mindcrime 7y agoThe acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM. I am not saying that "every decision is mysteriously pushed by IBM." I'm saying that IBM culture will - over the long run - infect Red Hat. To pretend otherwise is, IMO, pretty naive. Over the decades, company after company after company has been acquired, and nearly every time the acquiring company makes the same promises about maintaining autonomy for the acquired company. And sometimes it holds up for a few months, or even a few years. But every single time, at least that I can recall, in the long run the acquired company eventually gets totally absorbed by the parent and starts to take on their characteristics. I haven't heard any cogent argument yet to justify believing that this time will be different. IBM are also not idiots because it would destroy they purchase. Like the way IBM managed to avoid destroying Lotus, Informix, Tivoli, Rational, Sequent, Truven, Explorys, Phytel, etc.?