Post 827443 by TeddyDD@octodon.social
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(DIR) Post #822894 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T19:13:02Z
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Extraordinarily disappointed to hear about the #RedHat acquisition. They were the shining example of making a big open source business sustainable.I don't know what this is going to mean for the community...
(DIR) Post #823017 by drwho@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T19:23:26Z
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@ehashman They'll continue to use Ubuntu Server because it actually has drivers for reasonably modern hardware?
(DIR) Post #823019 by brennen@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T19:23:31Z
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@ehashman welp. there's no way this won't be a disaster for the ecosystem.
(DIR) Post #823065 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T19:26:22Z
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@drwho I actually don't know of any organization using Ubuntu on servers except some limited customers at my last job, majority have been RHEL, CentOS and Debian stable
(DIR) Post #823077 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T19:27:00Z
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@brennen like knowing how many upstream maintainers they employ fulltime just to work on those upstreams... ugh 😩
(DIR) Post #823143 by brennen@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T19:31:29Z
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@ehashman yep. we're screwed.
(DIR) Post #823484 by kavbojka@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T19:57:01Z
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@ehashmanIt makes sense and frankly it could be worse.
(DIR) Post #823519 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T19:59:45Z
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@kavbojka agreed it makes sense but this is a pretty worse case scenario afaict. I don't suppose you're familiar with IBM's office dress code for women: skirts only, specific length below or above the knee, pantyhose with specific sheerness and colour, blouse neckline of a specific type, heels of a minimum and maximum heightIt is a horrendous place built on white male supremacy and I don't want the whole damn FOSS community steeped in *more* of that >_<
(DIR) Post #825585 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-28T21:55:55Z
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@ehashman I use #Ansible pretty heavily. It’s sort of it’s own product, but is backed by #RedHat. I’ll reserve my final judgement until I start to see what changes happen... but I’m not very optimistic that my intellectual investment in that product ecosystem will continue to pay off long-term.
(DIR) Post #825639 by nbering@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-28T21:58:19Z
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@ehashman @kavbojka Also... didn’t they terminate most of their remote work agreements a while ago? Isn’t #RedHat like almost all remote? This seems like a bad culture match for an acquisition.
(DIR) Post #825661 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T21:59:39Z
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@nbering yeah, that was a thing
(DIR) Post #826328 by kavbojka@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T22:34:21Z
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@ehashman Wait, WHUT?!! 😨 I knew nothing of this.
(DIR) Post #826403 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T22:38:48Z
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@kavbojka a friend showed me their dress code when she was freaking out about clothes for going to HQ for training in 2016 and phewwww 😬
(DIR) Post #826540 by kavbojka@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T22:35:57Z
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@nbering @ehashman Not to excuse anything about IBM but a lot of acquisitions these days are more hands off than in the past. Fingers crossed?
(DIR) Post #826541 by kavbojka@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T22:37:59Z
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@nbering @ehashman oooooon the other hand, red hats ARE pretty synonymous with white supremacy these days so maybe this is a very on-brand thing to do?
(DIR) Post #826543 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T22:41:36Z
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@kavbojka @nbering LOL 😧
(DIR) Post #826778 by penryu@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T22:52:50Z
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@ehashman Redhat weren’t that different from Oracle’s treatment of Linux, and I don’t see IBM doing it much different. Might tilt the ecosystem a little deb-ward, and Canonical could profit some more?
(DIR) Post #826784 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-28T22:53:40Z
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@penryu heh, it really is between Big Red and Big Blue now
(DIR) Post #827443 by TeddyDD@octodon.social
2018-10-28T23:24:13Z
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@ehashman oh fuck this is huge (and terrifying)
(DIR) Post #827821 by drwho@mastodon.social
2018-10-28T23:44:49Z
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@ehashman Last couple of outfits I've worked for that still had physical hardware were using it because even Scientific Linux didn't have drivers for the disk controllers. Ubuntu Server just worked.Smallest number of boxen was in the low six hundreds.
(DIR) Post #828538 by sydneyfalk@elekk.xyz
2018-10-29T00:17:14Z
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@ehashman @kavbojka apparently IBM has developed the technology to make it 1955 in their facilities
(DIR) Post #830971 by foxwitch@queer.af
2018-10-29T03:10:43Z
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@ehashman Perhaps that dress code was at one point a thing, but it certainly isn't current policy at IBM.
(DIR) Post #831558 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-10-29T03:57:20Z
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@foxwitch my friend showed me a document detailing this in 2016 because she didn't know wtf to wear to orientation