[GTALUG] Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I hate top-posting.  But I'm doing it to make things clearer.

This is exactly what I got, and I find it very confusing.

At least in my MUA (alpine) it looks as if the last block of text (which I 
know was written by Evan) is presented as original to Russell.  I'm sure 
that this isn't Russell's intent, but it is the effect.

About the content:

- what's offlist?  Wasn't all this on-list?

- it's easy for a recipient to mistake an off-list reply with an on-list 
  reply.  I always try to add [PRIVATE] at the start of the subject to 
  make this stand out.  Alternatively, one could strip the [GTALUG], but 
  that makes the threading less obvious.  This is a manual step and I 
  sometimes forget.

- the current ferment in the US shows very clearly the cost of amplifying 
  conspiracy theories credulously (or with malice).  It sure seems that
  debunking is much harder than bunking.

- The great thing about Linux distros is that none has much of a moat.  If 
  RH goes rogue, there are plenty of other distros to choose from.

- Linux distros know that they don't have much of a moat so they tend not 
  to do things that push users away.  Or only do so for a worthwhile 
  reason.

| From: Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| To: GTALUG Talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| Cc: Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com>
| Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:30:18 -0400
| Subject: [GTALUG] Fwd:  Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
| 
| Sorry but it would be helpful if offlist responses were labeled and trimmed
| post's were noted, just for the sake of lessing confustion, if anything
| else. For some reson my MTA missed a response post to the list and this one
| is not labeled offlist, that part is kind of an informal protocol as I
| recall.
| 
| Sorry I'm a little confused, are you saying that skepticism about IBM's
| > intentions is not the same as skepticism about Redmond's, simply because
| > that it would be conspiracy theory to suggest that IBM would not tell
| > everybody about the eventual business plan, at the same time.
| >
| 
| I'm saying that I don't trust the source -- based on crackpot comments from
| the past, bolstered by recent conversations with RH employees saying the
| claims were utter shit.
| 
| - Evan
| 
| 
| 
| -- 
| Russell
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