IBM acquires RedHat

sshd · October 29, 2018, 7:23am

Discussion: IBM acquires Red Hat | Hacker News

What do you think will happen to RedHat?

Yes · October 29, 2018, 11:30am

Can’t mean anything positive for open source
More power to evil people like Poettering

great news

thagoat · October 29, 2018, 3:27pm

Not the greatest news, look for oss packages to go closed source. But still better than Microsoft buying GitHub.

SonOfAMotherlessGoat · October 29, 2018, 4:15pm

RHEL/2 Warp!

mfs · October 29, 2018, 5:12pm

Yes · October 29, 2018, 5:53pm

I think Microsoft buying Red Hat would’ve been better. Lmao.

@mfs perfect!

HIVELOCITY · October 29, 2018, 7:49pm

Not only do I hate this, I think its a very odd fit for IBM. Open source and IBM just do not seem like a match at all.

Yes · October 29, 2018, 8:01pm

They are now in the hole for $80B+, it’s gonna be a wild ride.

angstrom · October 29, 2018, 8:48pm

Since RHEL is the mantelpiece of Red Hat, it’s hard to imagine that IBM would want to abandon it, but how it’s developed may change with time, in particular, the relationship to Fedora and CentOS. Probably nothing will change for RHEL 7, but it’ll be interesting to see their approach to RHEL 8.