[CentOS] How will fragmentation help Red Hat

Thu Jul 13 15:56:20 UTC 2023
Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>

On 2023-07-13 05:11, mario juliano grande-balletta wrote:
> IBM wants to make money, PERIOD.  They paid billions for RedHat and
> investors, executives, want ROI and profit, period.  No excuses.
>
> So, they are locking down RedHat and closing channels to important
> software/materials.  It is what companies do all the time.


I see this hypothesis relatively often, but there's no evidence to 
support it, and it doesn't make much logical sense.

If Red Hat (or IBM) wanted to "lock down" RHEL, they wouldn't be 
focusing on Stream, which opens it up (and makes it easier to fork.)