On 10/30/2018 9:12 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Why do you say so?
On 10/31/18 12:44 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Good morning from Singapore,
This is of paramount importance. Would Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora remain open source/free software after IBM buys Red Hat for $34 Billion?
yes, because closing the code is the same as burning $34 Billion.
Think of it this way: A company specializing in 10 year support for an operating environment is being bought by a company specializing in 25-30 year support for an operating environment. Enterprise Linux -- and thus any derivative, like CentOS -- is not going away any time soon.
Fedora's value is far more in the technology aggregation (IMO) than support. IBM isn't <some other company that shall remain nameless> and thus I don't think the project is any danger, but Fedora would be workably forkable if it really came down to it.
-jc