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It’s become clear to many that Red Hat’s recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it’s fallen from its respected place as “the open organization.” SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat’s errors. We connect the dots.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure enterprises are just running for the door, just like they did when IBM bought Red Hat. Also Hashicorp. Enterprises are going to dump Terraform because it's closed source and owned by IBM

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

But people do get sacked when IBM buys you.