28 Oct
2018
28 Oct
'18
10 p.m.
On Sunday 28 October 2018 17:26:18 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday 28 October 2018 21.57:42
andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote:
So do I, but now that a price has been offered, only the name of the next
acquisition will change. That and the potential buyers ability to put
cash where his mouth is.
www.engadget.com/2018/10/28/ibm-buys-red-hat/
Is it a good new ?
Can this new make reviving Linux in the public market,
or only in the professional cloud market ?
André
I don't know. It's better that IBM buys than others, I guess. When
Novell bought SuSE the results were not so bad.
However I never liked Red Hat that much, so the question for me is
rather what effect it will have on Gnome and systemd dominance.
Luckily (I hope) no one can buy Debian...
As to Linux in the public market, it could be good for
Linux in
administrations, they would like the IBM backing. For the "average
user" the reasons to prefer Windows are different: closed source (and
only one system) makes drivers more available, games, and MS Office...
Thierry
I can't argue with that, I've heard many an MBA declare only windows, in
the house simply because they have a target to point their legal team at
if high priced programming they bought takes a head first dive into the
toilet.
An MBA must have someone they can offload the blame to if their idea to
buy a $20k a year program doesn't make them a multi-millionaire in a
year.
The phrase TANSTAAFL is their worst nightmare. I rather think its one
law that cannot be broken for free.
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