On Sunday 28 October 2018 17:26:18 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2018 21.57:42 andre_debian@... wrote: > > www.engadget.com/2018/10/28/ibm-buys-red-hat/ > > > > Is it a good new ? > > Can this new make reviving Linux in the public market, > > or only in the professional cloud market ? > > > > André > > I don't know. It's better that IBM buys than others, I guess. When > Novell bought SuSE the results were not so bad. > > However I never liked Red Hat that much, so the question for me is > rather what effect it will have on Gnome and systemd dominance. > > Luckily (I hope) no one can buy Debian... > So do I, but now that a price has been offered, only the name of the next acquisition will change. That and the potential buyers ability to put cash where his mouth is. > As to Linux in the public market, it could be good for Linux in > administrations, they would like the IBM backing. For the "average > user" the reasons to prefer Windows are different: closed source (and > only one system) makes drivers more available, games, and MS Office... > > Thierry I can't argue with that, I've heard many an MBA declare only windows, in the house simply because they have a target to point their legal team at if high priced programming they bought takes a head first dive into the toilet. An MBA must have someone they can offload the blame to if their idea to buy a $20k a year program doesn't make them a multi-millionaire in a year. The phrase TANSTAAFL is their worst nightmare. I rather think its one law that cannot be broken for free. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>