What are your thoughts on this?
What are your thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat?
Lincoln Butler
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Owen Gonzalez
RIP pizzahat.
Colton Martinez
I don't really get the fearmongering. I highly doubt this will change literally anything, and things will continue on as usual. I could be missing something though.
Jayden Barnes
I think they would look spiffy in their new hat.
Colton Lopez
My thoughts are that (((they))) are extending, just like the old plain mails from early XX Century where the snake is entagling the whole world
Logan Allen
Goodbye American workers, HELLLLO INDIAAA
Jonathan Cox
Lincoln Russell
It’s IBM increasing the range for its services/consulting business. Watson was a mistake
They won’t dare do anything to fuck with this golden goose. At least, not on purpose
Gavin Wilson
IBM has exactly been good with software, ever.
Most everything they've ever coded was horribly bloated, full of security holes and effectively requires an IBM support contract (by design)
Of course ownership isn't going to suddenly change RedHat overnight, but RedHat themselves have already started the slow creep to bloat, IBM's choices will only hasten it - that's a bad thing for Linux in general as RedHat has a lot of sway.
The outright featmongering is a but much, but this change is probably not for the best - much like Oracle buying Sun turned out to be bad for anyone who wasn't Oracle.
Angel Cook
Its a good deal
>not turning 70 dollars into $133,000
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Lincoln Evans
based iranians
Grayson Martin
Donate to fund Haiku and the BSDs ASAP. We need an escape hatch.
Luis Lewis
Makes a lot of sense really.
Openshift + Docker + Hybrid Cloud is a very easy sell to most large enterprises. IBM will also try to hawk their OpenPower servers to complete the package.
People worry about IBM influencing Red Hat too much, but I feel like it is going to be the other way around really. IBM needs a shakeup, and buying out the largest open source private company is a sure way to do it.
Xavier Taylor
Red Hat is/was a public company.
As for OpenPower that is going to require a LOT of changes as the idea of OpenShift is to run any container that you have but it is limited to the arch and OS.
Wyatt Bennett
They've been doing a lot of work porting shit to POWER on Linux but I think most of what's going to happen is a diversion of effort in redhat to port even more shit to POWER.
Aaron Miller
doesn't matter what they port. OpenShift can run pretty much any non-root container on docker hub. Going to power limits that.
Evan Collins
>I don't really get the fearmongering. I highly doubt this will change literally anything, and things will continue on as usual.
Christian Ramirez
There will be a mass exodus of Redhat employees to Google, Amazon, Facebook etc. The few that stay will eventually be replaced with Indians that will replace Gnome with a web app that runs on Websphere, takes 5 minutes to start, requires 32GB of RAM and constantly crashes due to NullPointerExceptions. Error logs will be nothing but thousand line stack traces.
Nolan Myers
accurate
Nathaniel Myers
Open source as a concept will die over the next 5 years. As the economy worsens and people realize that being a free slave worker for the open source cult doesnt make them any money, they move on to making real software that profits them. Which will naturally be closed source. The big corps that have open sourced their software will see that they get 0.08% of contributions from outside people and realize that while it was a nice little marketing gag, their open source software didn't actually improve their bottom line in any measurable way.
This was a big fad and it ends now. Move on to Windows or die with Linux, that's your choice.
Brandon Wright
as a red hat employee why could it have not been Microsoft?
Jacob Lewis
I don't know what you're talking about, they have precisely been porting Docker.
Oliver Nelson
Except M$ just bought GitHub and is ironically the largest contributor to open source.
Dominic Anderson
who is this they?
We(RedHat) have been trying to move away from docker. Hence cri-o and buildah
Logan Rivera
embrace extend extinguish
Mason Wilson
aids buying cancer to be stronger in the killing side.
redhat, as the good whore it is, is selling linux to anyone.
I think I'll change trade to something manual soon. All this shit is becoming really annoying.
Asher Cruz
We(IBM) have spent a good chunk of last year porting Golang and docker components to POWER9
Evan Hill
holy shit, 34 billions.... what a scam
redhat is worth a few millions at best
Isaac Phillips
Scared. One of the open source system we use at my company is optaplanner, which is developed by red hat employees and is actually a competitor to IBM's stupid c-plex solver
Joseph Scott
I use Windows so I don’t give a flying fuck
Isaac Cooper