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>IBM doesn’t care that this guy is mad No, but they should. Jeff Geerling is one of these guys: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ IBM might not m
by notatoad 3y ago
>IBM doesn’t care that this guy is mad
No, but they should. Jeff Geerling is one of these guys: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/
IBM might not make money off you or me, but they absolutely make money off people like Jeff. In some regards, that’s kinda their whole business
- bragr 3y agoIBM is a big company. They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly, and if he's opensourcing his software, it's not like he can stop them from using it even if he is mad. I'm not saying this is the morally right, "best" in the long term sense, or otherwise socially optimal choice, I'm just saying it's the standard IBM choice.
- blowski 3y ago> They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly I bet they can’t. He’s hardly some code monkey churning out generic lines of code.
- wakaru44 3y agoxd they definitely can't. maybe with a small team they could replace some.
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- AdamJacobMuller 3y agoEven if this causes RedHat to trend towards oblivion and 0 usage IBM will continue to make a shitload of money in the interim and IBM will trot out an army of MBAs with spreadsheets to explain why this change earned the company more money even if it caused the demise of RedHat. You see, you are just being sentimental about trying to save something you're nostalgic for. This MBA army can clearly justify with mountains of spreadsheets why this was the Correct Thing To Do to maximize shareholder value and profit. My first Linux installation was a copy of Red Hat 4 (not RHEL 4, RedHat 4), circa 1996-ish. I remember bugging my mother for weeks to drive me to CompUSA and buy a copy. I am deeply nostalgic.