On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 10:06, Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Le 05/06/2018 à 08:48, Lars Noodén a écrit : > > Of the the targets for purchase, I'd say that Canonical is weakest and > > M$ always goes after the weak and crappy products. Ubuntu is not crappy > > but Canonical is not in good shape and like Red Hat it has been > > infiltrated at the executive level by "former" Microsofters. But unlike > > Red Hat because Canonical is much smaller, these are a much higher > > percentage of the team and have an outsized influence. A purchase could > > further damage upstream Debian and thus Devuan. > > > They have enough money to buy any private company. The most usefull > is RH because it has the full control over systemd and most other > distros are now dependant on systemd. All the Linux community is > strongly dependant on RH, not only via systemd, but because RH is the > most important developper in Linux, including in the kernel. And RH is > already developping the bizness model of making profit out of Linux. > > I'm convinced systemd is a major step delibaretely made by RH in > view of its resale to M$. > > Didier > > That's is correct. RH & M$ are trying to control this behemoth called open source world, which is mostly sneered by the latter in it's early days. And as always M$ was late to the game. RH on the other had a good start by posing systemd as an init system to assert it's power. so yes github acquision or systemd it's al about controlling potential risks to not to harm your profit. -- aldemir
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