Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 4:56 PM Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > ... The truth and reconciliation movement in Canada, > > by stating there is systematic racism in this country ... > > But there is systemic and horrific racism in this country. I'm sure many > of us here were affected by "No

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
> ... The truth and reconciliation movement in Canada, > by stating there is systematic racism in this country ... But there is systemic and horrific racism in this country. I'm sure many of us here were affected by "No Canadian Experience" hiring policies. Just because a website espouses

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:51 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 10:31, Alvin Starr wrote: > >> I do not believe that The Rules of Acquisition existed before DS-9. >> But they nicely reflect the business practices over the last 50, 60,70... >> 100 years. >> With the

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 10:31, Alvin Starr wrote: > I do not believe that The Rules of Acquisition existed before DS-9. > But they nicely reflect the business practices over the last 50, 60,70... > 100 years. > With the "Greed is Good" concept it has become a bit more out in the open > > Someone

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 8/6/20 9:56 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 09:52, Alvin Starr via talk > wrote: Business policies most often make sense when looked at through the lens of  "The Rules of Acquisiion". If you don't have "The lobes for profit" then you will

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 09:52, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Business policies most often make sense when looked at through the lens > of "The Rules of Acquisition". > If you don't have "The lobes for profit" then you will likely see > conspiracies behind every decision. > Did that concept

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
Business policies most often make sense when looked at through the lens of  "The Rules of Acquisition". If you don't have "The lobes for profit" then you will likely see conspiracies behind every decision. On 8/6/20 9:43 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: I've spoken to some actual Red Hat

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Evan Leibovitch via talk
I've spoken to some actual Red Hat employees who they said the article has been widely circulated and has served as a good laugh. No booms are being lowered that they're aware of and morale remains decent. I'm wary of the source based on Dr. Ray's previous articles.He's obsessed with Microsoft

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-06 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:52 PM Sergio Durigan Junior via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, August 05 2020, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the > internal > > chaos thats leading up to this. > > > > "They said that OS

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior via talk
On Wednesday, August 05 2020, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the internal > chaos thats leading up to this. > > "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan > noted. It says it right there. That may

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Dhaval Giani via talk
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 11:04 AM Russell Reiter wrote: > Hey Phoronix got me through some kind of puzzling stuff relatively > unscathed. I just liked some of the more pointed comments from this > article, like its either RPM and reboot or Flatpak from the cloud. > Ha, no offense meant at phoronix.

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Hey Phoronix got me through some kind of puzzling stuff relatively unscathed. I just liked some of the more pointed comments from this article, like its either RPM and reboot or Flatpak from the cloud. I never personally used MS much past dos 6.2. I think thats because I got a late start in

Re: [GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Dhaval Giani via talk
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 6:43 AM Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the > internal chaos thats leading up to this. > > "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan > noted. It says it right there. That may

[GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

2020-08-05 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the internal chaos thats leading up to this. "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan noted. It says it right there. That may explain quite a lot, not just about RHEL’s direction but also Fedora’s. We