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Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion"

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion"
Date 2018-11-01 14:46 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2018-11-01, Pedro Valdez <pedro1492@lycos.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 4:39:04 PM UTC+8, the borg wrote:
>> IBM is acquiring Red Hat, a major distributor of open-source 
>> software and technology, in a deal valued around $34 billion, 
>> the companies announced on Sunday.
>> 
>
> Suse was sold to some investors for only 2.5 milliard dollars.
>
> I am only worried if Centos/Leap get shafted....

Redhat, as all Linux distros, is GPL. This means that Centos (well they
are now owned by REdhat) or anyone else can package and distribute
Redhat without problem. 

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Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" "the borg" <failure-thy-name-is@ibm.com> - 2018-10-29 09:28 +0100
  Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" Nomen Nescio <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-10-29 08:36 -0500
    Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-29 19:34 +0000
      Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" tom <tom@0.0.0.0> - 2019-02-26 22:00 -0800
        Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-02-27 17:02 +0000
  Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" Pedro Valdez <pedro1492@lycos.com> - 2018-11-01 03:40 -0700
    Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-11-01 14:46 +0000
      Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-11-01 17:51 +0000
        Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-01 14:21 -0500
          Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-11-02 00:52 +0000
        Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-11-01 21:40 +0000
    Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-01 10:38 -0500
  Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" Pedro Valdez <pedro1492@lycos.com> - 2018-11-09 05:41 -0800

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