IBM acquires Red Hat • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by mhsabbagh » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

bepotts wrote: post #125

God help us. Will there be any independent open source/open source friendly company that isn't controlled by some corporate giant?

Probably if things go wrong, every community will just fork the code and move on.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by reikonomusha » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #124

Hoping they will stick to this: "IBM to maintain Red Hat’s open source innovation legacy, scaling its vast technology portfolio and empowering its widespread developer community Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team" I guess this was an important part of the deal, otherwise it wouldn't make much sense.

“Y buys X for it to operate distinctly within Y.” usually doesn’t mean much. It doesn’t imply independence.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by marknadal » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

This reminds me of an article[1] I wrote predicting shifting trends in Open Source development, in particular of core infrastructure tools.

There is a huge ripe opportunity for a new company/non-profit to step in and set precedence on the future of developer tools. People don't "Dream Big" anymore, and having the biggest OSS companies absorbed by the most proprietary of companies is a perfect example of hope being lost. I hope we can revert this trend, who wants to help?

1. https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by jhawk28 » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

rodgerd wrote: post #86

Aloha wrote: post #59

IBM has been very open source friendly over the last 20 years, more so as of recently.

Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.

Eclipse

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by usrusr » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

rodgerd wrote: post #86

Aloha wrote: post #59

IBM has been very open source friendly over the last 20 years, more so as of recently.

Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.

I'm sure that you can draw a line where it does not count as "core product", but Eclipse has to count as something.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by IronBacon » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #35

Oh shit. This is one of the worst things I can imagine.

Well, I can easily imagine something worse, like for example Oracle buying it... ^__^;

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by haolez » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

starefossen wrote: post #121

This affects on so many open source projects in addition to RHEL. ANSIBLE, Ceph, OpenShift, Linux kernel, JBoss as well as everything Red Hat acquired from CoreOS.

I hope CoreOS succeeds regardless. It has built a very nice ecosystem around it.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by rodgerd » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

jhawk28 wrote: post #134

rodgerd wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.

Eclipse

Eclipse is hardly a core IBM product.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by rodgerd » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #106

rodgerd wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.

Their J9 JDK alongside with WebSphere AS.

WAS is not open source.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by MrStonedOne » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

Time for an increased focus on productivity and deadlines and shareholder return until all talent leaves from burn out.

Good news for any tech company looking for talent in the next few years.