IBM acquires Red Hat

Actually Red Hat is exactly like IBM. Huge and slow.

I know the contribution to FOSS from Red Hat is great and all, but their product, RHEL, was a cancer for a modern software development.

Just easier to maintain for sysadmins doesn't make enough excuse for really long release cycle and the worst of all is they keep supporting the old products.

The result is a nightmare development environment for all the programmers who has to workaround the old bugs that was fixed years ago in the upstream but not fixed in the RHEL packages, but they have to use the RHEL packaged software for stupid sysadmin reasons.

It's like Vader asked Luke to join him in defeating the Emperor (Microsoft) and ruling the galaxy as father and son - and instead of the audience hearing "I'll never join you!!", we hear "sure, let's team up."

The cognitive dissonance is so strong here. WTF just happened? If you asked me a month ago to put down serious money in Vegas on this never happening, I'd have happily done so. What on Earth were they thinking?

IBM is basically taking it's failing Kubernetes distribution, saying "why lose when we can just buy the winners?", and went ahead and bought Red Hat and OpenShift instead. A year from now, we'll start to see heavy IBM integrations into OpenShift, radically increased licensing fees for RHEL to squeeze every penny out of enterprises which bought RHEL specifically because they need the support guarantees because they can't migrate away quickly, and every other Red Hat project - Ansible, Cockpit, Fedora, CentOS, etc., will get torn to pieces by IBM bean counters.

Red Hat shareholders just sold out. Goddamnit.

There were several threads about this. We merged them into the one that was posted first.

We changed the url to the most readable and least press-releasey. The others were:

https://twitter.com/EdHammondNY/status/1056604618015285248

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-sa...

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r...

The articles (and Stalman interviews) happening recently pointed to this situation. Open Source, as adopted currently, is a flawed model that valors corporate protection more than end-user freedom.

github is now sourceforge. redhat is now suse Linux. etc.

all the little benefits you got having an apache or bsd license over gpl will start to bite you now. Case in point: every major company has a opensource executive whose only job is to make sure all projects are using closed-source-permissive licenses.

Out of curiosity what sort of workloads are you running on a Talos II?