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Saw it coming a mile away when CentOS was acquired. You don’t acquire your free competitor to keep them around exactly as is simply out of the goodness of one’
by rubyist5eva 5y ago
Saw it coming a mile away when CentOS was acquired. You don’t acquire your free competitor to keep them around exactly as is simply out of the goodness of one’s heart.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> Saw it coming a mile away when CentOS was acquired. That was 2014; if this was the original plan, they took their sweet time with it.
- rubyist5eva 5y agoMaybe it wasn’t but I don’t see how any business acquires their free competitor and then keeps it around to cannibalize their own potential market. Just doesn’t make any sense. It was inevitable - initially intentional or not. It’s just capitalism.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoAnd they got at least two new competitors, three if you count Oracle. You really think they did not foresee that?
- rubyist5eva 5y agoThey probably didn’t expect as much backlash to Stream and expected people to just use that or buy RHEL. I’m sure the amount of users they expected to lose to new forks was part of their risk analysis, they just blew it IMO.