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| From | William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux |
| Subject | Re: Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" |
| Date | 2018-11-01 21:40 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <prfrs9$s0e$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2018-11-01, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-11-01, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: >> 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. > > They can, but Red Hat was making it more difficult to do so until they came > to some kind of agreement with CentOS, which made things much easier for > CentOS. (I would have to go back and re-read exactly what the change was, > but this happened a couple (three?) years ago. I'm guessing IBM could > reverse the agreement made with CentOS. Yes, thy were trying to, in direct contravantion of the GPL, which explicity states that you cannot do anything to prevent someone from copying a GPL work. Putting in trademarked stuff and saying thatthat prevents you from copying the work IS such a prevention and removes RedHat's right to copy any of the GPL material. >
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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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