[TriLUG] Red Hat + IBM, good or bad?

[Israel J. Pattison via TriLUG]

IBM has been a long time contributor to the Linux kernel. IBM has copyright
to more than fifty modules in the source tree, especially for s390 and ppc.
The IBM Linux Technology Center in Beaverton, OR was one of the first
corporate efforts to contribute to Linux.

IBM is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, dumping lots of dollars
in to FOSS projects.

IBM is a partner with RH in developing Istio, an open source orchestration
layer for microservices.

IBM software has run on RHEL since v.2.

Employees in the 2000's who wanted to run a "Blue Linux" on their
engineering desktops were given an IBM-branded version of RHEL.

IBM, at great expense to the corporation, fought off a legal challenge from
the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) which with covert funding from Microsoft,
attempted to destroy the Linux kernel by claiming that it infringed on UNIX
copyrights. IBM drove SCO out of existence and saved Linux.

IBM and RedHat have been business partners for many years, sharing many
projects together.

RH has been shopping itself around. Recent business rags have named Google,
Facebook, Microsoft and others as potential suitors. Would you have
preferred MS RedHat? RHEL by Google? FB Fedora?

I think IBM will work out just fine, and the many Red Hatters and IBMers
who are TriLUG members can keep us apprised of how things are going.


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:32 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 8:25 PM Cristóbal Palmer via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder what volume licensing prices for RHEL for universities will look
> > like in two years. I wonder what will become of CentOS. I wonder if
> > suddenly Canonical will get bought....
> >
>       If it is to be bought I expect to be by Microsoft.
>
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:24 PM Keith Woodie via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I agree that it is concerning.   Hope IBM just leaves it alone...
> >
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