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

[Russell Reiter]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 1:42 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> 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?
>

Sometimes list posts show up in my inbox categorized by FORUM others show
up in
my inbox. I guess it depends on who is being cc'd, the poster or the list
software.

I was going to say that I'm not sure if Evan's tags were being scrubbed by
mailer software, but the "utter shit" post is originally offlist to me, but
others on the archive don't have the tags either. So perhaps Evan was using
a different device, in the middle of the conversation, as I often do.

Kind of like government that way.

>
> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
> @evanleibovitch / @el56
>


>
> - 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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