I just hope that Fedora does not become one of those garage distributions.
On 10/29/18 6:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:02:32 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 10/29/18 8:12 AM, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
>> 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
> Wonderfully stated. The announcement took my breath away. I hope
> Fedora gets spun off.
Unlike the IBM of today, Redhat was not really your average capitalist enterprise so they
supported Fedora. They had a long view which is not permitted by markets.....In any case,
I doubt that Fedora or OSS is an example of any kind of capitalism. A good place to start
looking for that would be Somalia.