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

[John Vaughters via TriLUG]

Definitely caught my eye. A 63% premium on the stock price? WOW!!! That right there throws suspicion on the deal. Not very often do you see that much premium on a market price.I guess it stops any share holder revolts for sure. Still irritated I am out of RHT.
John Vaughters    On Monday, October 29, 2018, 10:44:53 AM EDT, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:  
 
 For anyone interested in the financials, I recommend reading the following 
analysis posted on ZeroHedge (it isn't good):

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-28/desperation-move-ibm-buys-red-hat-34-billion-largest-ever-acquisition

William Sutton

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, John Vaughters via TriLUG wrote:

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>> I don't think they can retroactively claim code that's already been released under the GPL 
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> Absolutely they cannot change existing GPL. What is out there is out there and only code going forward is at risk.
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> Great case is MySQL and MariaDB. Last GPL taken and started a new. Open Source Genie out of the bottle.
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> We agree it is not likely a huge issue. I too would jump to Debian if need be, actually I have spent quite a bit more time with them in the past few years anyway due to their dominance in the embedded world.
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