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Patch@feddit.uk 8 months agoTo be fair, there are (or were) lots of distros downstream of RHEL marketing themselves as drop-in replacements, not just Oracle. And this move isn’t likely to stop Oracle (and the rest), only make the transition experience less smooth for clients (ultimately all the downstream distros can just rebase off of CentOS Stream instead; they lose “bug for bug” compatibility, but will still largely be drop-in replacements).
I also find it hard to muster any sympathy for IBM of all people, even when their opponent is Oracle (who are the lowest of the low).
Auzy@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Which distro’s though?
Oracle is literally marketing against, and attacking Redhat directly: support.oracle.com/knowledge/…/560992_1.html
I think it is directly related to Oracle, as Oracle literally is just RHEL, with cheaper support (which they can afford to do, because their development costs are tiny compared to RHEL, if they just copy the code every release).
The others I’ve seen used it as a base, but aren’t really competing in the same way. CentOS also wasn’t providing commercial support… Either is Fedora. Commercial / Enterprise support is how Redhat makes money. And that’s how Oracle is planning to make money too
Also, what is wrong with IBM? I don’t recall them doing anything bad for open source. they fought SCO, and have contributed a lot to the community