On Sun, October 28, 2018 6:07 pm, mark wrote: > On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote: >> On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: >> >>> Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : >>>> Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. >>> >>> Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also >>> contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel. >>> I don't know how bad it is and the implications for CentOS... >> >> That old war wound started aching again. >> >> IBM:Redhat :: Oracle:Sun > > Actually, it could have been *much8 worse: *Oracle* could have bought RH. > > That *really* would have been an order of magnitude worse. > I like the fact that it was IBM who bought RedHat. I remember several good things about IBM: 1. Postfix. Vietse Venema wrote it at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and IBM was really happy to release MTA written with security in mind under IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software license - for everybody to use. 2. Does anybody still remember OS/2 which lost userbase to MS Windows for workgroups, but IBM still supported it for quite long period of time. And OS/2 was much better IMHO. I bet many people can add other great things about IBM. All in all I'm not unhappy IBM bough RedHat, but will be quite unhappy if IBM sells RedHat to somebody else after some time. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++