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What are the chances that IBM decides to make life super difficult for
CentOS? <br>
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CentOS throat-choking and IBM jacking the price of commercial versions
of RHEL/Satelite/Ansible/OpenShift so high that they chase away all
current enterprise clients is sort of how I'm betting that IBM is going
to mess this all up<br>
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my thoughts (even though i have not worked there, talking to its
employees was enough).<div><div>it's attitude towards open source is not
exactly promising.</div><div>the recent github deal comes to mind but
at least MS is declaring to be more open towards open source.</div><div>and
at least there is an alternative in that case - gitlab.</div><div>what
would be an alternative to RH? certainly not a single one. </div></div></div><br>
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wonder where that places us in the not too distant future..<br><br>I've
worked for Big Blue, and I'm not sure the company cultures are<br>compatible
to say the least.<br><br>/tony<br><br></div>
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