[GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

[Dhaval Giani]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 6:43 AM Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the
> internal chaos thats leading up to this.
>
> "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan
> noted. It says it right there. That may explain quite a lot, not just about
> RHEL’s direction but also Fedora’s. We see more vendor tie-in/lock-in, more
> software patents (monopoly) and not much of real value."
>
> IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim
> Whitehurst Isn’t Even Using GNU/Linux | Techrights
>
> http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/red-hat-layoffs/
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I was once reading that site and it accused Greg kh and Sasha Levin of
being Microsoft stooges. I knew enough about it then. (Fun bit I think he
reads it for entertainment to see what they will come with next).

Seriously, even phoronix is a serious news site compared to that one.

Dhaval
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