IBM acquires Red Hat • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by shmerl » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:04 PM UTC

ianai wrote: post #214

bloopernova wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I share the sentiment. Gawd. Freaking. Dammit. I've been using RHEL-derived systems for like almost 20 years. This actually feels like a betrayal of the Open Source community. Any bets on whether Fedora and CentOS will exist in November 2019?

Where’s the history of IBM buying and sun setting companies? I don’t have the same prejudice towards IBM that I do for Oracle. But I’m not in a position to know. I’m thinking RHEL’s support contracts will keep IBM from shuttering RHEL. An IBM branded RHEL would represent plenty of income.

They can cancel many projects that RedHat do as a general giving back to Linux. IBM wouldn't care.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by shmerl » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

ausjke wrote: post #7

The only positive side I can think of is that, Microsoft did not buy RH before IBM does. This is a threat to OSS, sadly. Maybe Google or Amazon will buy Canonical soon?

Why do they need to sell it to begin with?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by deadmik3 » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #240

kache_ wrote: post #183

New IBM hire, software developer. So far; I've taken part of 3 separate events where I was essentially sat through a presentation on why I should file patents (so they could farm IP off of me and my peers). IBM is a pathological company, and definitely not good news for open source.

All major tech companies file patents - shouldn't be surprising that it's going to be part of the job.

Red hat even has like 2000 patents

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by binaryapparatus » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

OpenBSD-reich wrote: post #241

solatic wrote: post #153

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?…

Hopefully this will cause an uptick in Gentoo (and OpenBSD)!

Yup, since I switched to FreeBSD year or more ago it makes watching news like this much less stressful.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by billfruit » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

mindfulplay wrote: post #205

They will put the Watson marketing department and the salespeople to work and cut off any meaningful tech. Sigh.

Seriously the amount of Watson hype IBM is spinning is astounding. Recently went to a vendors sales presentation on IBM Rhapsody, and they are touting some sort of rudimentary interactive agent, as powered by 'Watson'.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by trebligdivad » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

Aloha wrote: post #59

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

The problem (as an ex-IBMer) is that that friendlyness is only in parts of the company; much of IBM is open-source hostile.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by OpenBSD-reich » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

eliaspro wrote: post #210

severino wrote: post #161

Well, I don't know anybody in the FOSS community which would be worried it systemd became endangered ;)

So you'd rather go back to Upstart or SysV? Really?

I switched to Gentoo because of systemd. I switched to OpenBSD because Linus was recently 'compromised' and adopted the CoC (worse: it's the highly political Creator's Covenant version). Theo's philosophy is shut up and hack, much like the early Linus with the bonus of being security instead of performance oriented.

I'd love to see a Portage Prefix on OpenBSD, or Gentoo/kOpenBSD, effort start up again. Bringing Portage to OpenBSD (even if prefixed) would make a wonderful combination!

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by xtat » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

Good news for Debian :)

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by cozzyd » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

trhway wrote: post #110

RH fell behind the times. Their paradigm of a stable though an older kernel was suitable for the times when kernel wasn't that stable and things in the industry were developed slower than today. I work in a big enterprise space and usually we do Ubuntu if we can and SUSE Enterprise if we can't :), i recently tried Docker/Kubernetes on a recent RHEL - looking at the kernel version i already didn't expect the stuff to…

You know you can run your own kernel, right?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by sabana » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

kache_ wrote: post #183

New IBM hire, software developer. So far; I've taken part of 3 separate events where I was essentially sat through a presentation on why I should file patents (so they could farm IP off of me and my peers). IBM is a pathological company, and definitely not good news for open source.

Have you been enjoying the morale nothings-on-fire-we-swear propoganda all-hands meetings? I was in IBM, software dev, for a year - just left around July. God help your soul.