wfuser

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   by wfuser 6y ago

   > Then IBM bought Red Hat and things went south. I think IBM had nothing to do with this one. People think Red Hat won't do anything like this. However, there exists a part of Red Hat which is capable of doing this. That part of Red
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   by wfuser 6y ago

   > I think the name and the logo is good. Don't listen to the people who just keep talking and not helping! Agreed. It's funny that people here are complaining "Rocky Linux" isn't a professional name and they won&
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   by wfuser 6y ago

   I see that you note in your profile that you work at Red Hat. May I ask in which department of Red Hat? The reason I ask that is, are you part of the decision making team which made this decision? If not, then no matter how good you think t
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   by wfuser 6y ago

   > Rumor is RH was planning this from before merger. I fully believe this. Like I noted in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358847 , they have done this exact similar thing in the past with the JBoss
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   by wfuser 6y ago

   There was even a restriction on the community edition to not release bug fix releases (just one was allowed). So if X.0.0 was released then X.0.1, X.0.2 and so on were not allowed. Without these bug fix releases the community versions start
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   by wfuser 6y ago

   I don't think this has anything to do with the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, but this is something that's driven by Red Hat's management itself. They did a similar thing with JBoss application server (the community edition) whi