I feel as though I've been kicked in the back of the neck.....by Bruce Lee! I don't presume to know the first thing about corporations, mergers, and long term financials,.... And while Red Hat was a corporation per se.....I've always loved Fedora for being different, for being the odd distro that was backed by a major corporation ....but was still able to support itself independently. Now? I'm just "leery". I don't know what plans IBM has for their new found "toy".....& I'd rather not be surprised as others have said. So the question is: Are there any .rpm-based distros that would make a good replacement for Fedora?....
Heartbroken in the world of Open Source. EGO II On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 11:05 AM Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:56:45PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >On 10/28/18 10:18 PM, Tim via users wrote: > >>On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >>>The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was > >>>always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat it, > >>>because it was doing well. Anyway, the ultimate decision now is up to > >>>Red Hat shareholders. Why would they say no though? They bought the > >>>stock to make money, this is their big pay day. > >> > >>Ultimately, that's the horrible thing about capitalism. Things only > >>exist for monetary reasons, they don't really exist to do what the > >>product is for. > >> > >>And you can say it about anything. e.g. The commercial phone companies > >>don't exist for people to be able to communicate (what their customers > >>consider their primary purpose to be). They're there to make money and > >>it really doesn't care how well the communications aspect of it works. > > > >"Capitalism" is an insult term made up by Marxists to describe the > >Free Market, which is "the free and open exchange of goods and > >services between consenting parties". Under the Free Market, to meet > >your > >own needs, you must meet the the needs of your customers. > > > >Your description of communications customers only caring about money > >falls apart. If the service stinks, folks go elsewhere. As a > >small businessman, I can tell you that if I do not meet the needs > >of my customers, I STARVE. I live it and breath it. I am only > >rewarded for meeting my customers needs. > > > >Red Hat has every right to sell itself to IBM, as Lands' End had every > >right to sell itself to Sears. And I have every right to look elsewhere > >for someone else that will meet my needs. > > > >I hope Fedora survives this. If not, someone else will pick up > >the slack. > > +1 > > I couldn't have put it better .. > > Plus: AFAIK IBM is still heavily interested in Linux. [1] > > IBM seems to know how to run a business. And they seem to make lots of > money with Linux. All this makes me hopeful that RedHat/Fedora becomes > more focused on users and customers. Simply because their new boss > says so ... :) > > And the whole merger seems to make sense: Fedora with their new cloud > targeted Silverblue distro might connect well with IBM's Hybrid Cloud. > > Before reading about the acquisition I was rather sure to overwrite my > installed Fedora with another Linux, before mid-2019, when Fedora's > image based upgrades will arrive as the default Fedora Workstation > OS. At least parts of this image based system will be read-write > protected as it is planned - IIUC - for the Silverblue image based > OS. I read the rpm-based Fedora system might still be available. But I > don't like to be surprised with immutable system parts on Linux, so > just to be on the safe side I planned a change in the months coming > ... > > With that acquisition tho' I'll wait a little and see. And I might > even wait a little longer before migrating somewhere else ... > > Wolfgang > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/567099/ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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