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IBM make a sheadload of money, redhat also was doing absolutely fine on support sales (up 17% in 2022, according to 'el'google) -- if they are suddenly unable t

IBM make a sheadload of money, redhat also was doing absolutely fine on support sales (up 17% in 2022, according to 'el'google) -- if they are suddenly unable to pay their developers then, sure. I don't think anyone is particularly surprised, or will miss them much. It's just kinda sad to see what was a reasonably happy opensource success story end with a giant corporation shutting down some of their releases out of protectionism.

orf 3y ago
You’re not in their sales funnel and lots of things look healthy from the outside that actually are not.
- _cenw 3y ago
  it seems to correlate more with the ibm acquisition
  - bonzini 3y ago
    People were expecting IBM to swallow Red Hat in 3 years. After 4 years some parts of RHEL have been opened (Fedora ELN, CentOS Stream) and some have been closed, overall I would call that a success even if IBM was behind this decision...
    - awill 3y ago
      You're listing CentOS Stream as a positive thing IBM created? No. That was their excuse for cancelling CentOS. If you remember, it was universally unpopular.