Check out Cringely's article on IBM and Red Hat. https://www.cringely.com/
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:26 PM Larry Brigman <[email protected]> wrote: > Not 100% sure on that last comment as most of the people running the > infrastructure/Build systems are Redhat Employees. > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > FYI CentOS does not need the blessing of IBM any more than it already > needs > > the blessing of Red Hat. Here's some reading material you might find > > interesting. > > https://www.centos.org/about/ > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/ > > > > Change of management at Red Hat will likely have no serious impact on the > > development of Fedora and CentOS. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:32 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:49:48 -0700 > > > Richard England <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > > >IBM will probably continue their Linux efforts. The better question is > > > >what will they do with Fedora and the desktop. IBM may have little > > > >interest in the desktop and their interest in non-revenue initiatives > > > >like Fedora and CentOS are questionable, as well. > > > > > > My take is that Redhat started Fedora as a test bed. I used it for a > > > couple of years before giving up on it. Yes, it's free, and in some > ways > > > a competitor to the bigger desktop providers like Mint and Ubuntu, but > > > I couldn't put up with the constant, almost mandatory updates. > > > Nevertheless, while I bitched about having to update, I had to > > > recognize that I knew the purpose of Fedora before I started using it - > > > I got a free desktop in exchange for being Redhat's guinea pig. So, as > > > long as Redhat needs a place to test new ideas, Fedora will probably > > > continue. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
