• staticlifetime@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know about that. IBM is traditionally stupid, yeah, but they wanted Red Hat for a reason. The CentOS debacle altogether was Red Hat, not IBM, and I don’t think they are doing too much day to day operational mandates for stuff like this. I would not be surprised if this was just a Red Hat thing. I know it’s easy to blame IBM, but I don’t think it’s that simple.

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        1 year ago

        I’m absolutely not surprised that NASA took CentOS-in-more-than-name over the people who are trying to kill Enterprise Linux.

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          1 year ago

          NASA did their contract beforehand.

          And it was only for a few workstations, still I think it caused Red Hat to panic. Government is a big customer.

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      they wanted Red Hat for a reason.

      They were dying and they needed a cash cow to milk. The only way that was gonna work is if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it. And they can’t stop, so they’re just kicking away.

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        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.

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      1 year ago

      . 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.