On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 5:26 PM Thierry de Coulon tcoulon@decoulon.ch wrote:
I don't know. It's better that IBM buys than others, I guess. When Novell bought SuSE the results were not so bad.
As to Linux in the public market, it could be good for Linux in administrations, they would like the IBM backing.
It's interesting to me that anyone would bother to do so. IBM has been an explicit Linux contributor and beneficiary for a long time. All flavors run on IBM hardware quite well, a mutually beneficial relationship.
Hopefully some brain-dead MBA won't get it into his head to try to make "special" drivers so RedHat works better on IBM systems than other flavors. Bad, bad, bad idea.
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.
One can hope systemd dies utterly.
Thierry
Curt-