if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it
I miss Cringely's take on this.
if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it
I miss Cringely's take on this.
But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though?
I can only recommend you look at the last decade of IBM's history in that respect.
I was actually about to do that (move to Debian).
Maybe stay within the Enterprise Linux camp for a bit. Not to start a flame war, but when an OS company was deciding between EL and Debians, the RPM format was the deciding factor.
consider PCLinuxOS for a mageia (mandriva, conectiva and mandrake, both branches from RedHat pre-Enterprise Linux) descendant.
. I would not be surprised if this was just a Red Hat thing.
It's a tough one. We blame RedHat for a lot of its half-baked internal fridge art - systemd, network manager; and even, some days, yum in an apt-4-rpm world.
But this new one is QUITE the departure. It's not 'red hat' stupid but a little further on the spectrum.
While Jeff's support for ELs has been imperfect - I marveled at the supply-chain issues gleefully baked into the drupal vagrant stuff - I came here to really say:
IBM's not really the poster-child for preserving the sanctity of source code in the past (cough cough Monterey cough), and I'm surprised they're even suggesting everyone respect their own demands around that.