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It's Redhat, whose focus has always been enterprise the money maker.

Ever since it dumped the desktop years ago, I switched to the deb ecosystem and never looked back, do not want to have anything to do with Redhat,including this openshift thing, one reason is for the "dump-the-desktop"(please don't mention Fedora), another is that, DEB is so much better than RPM for my daily life.

I also hate the Redhat-intrusively-forced-on-SystemD to my heart.

That been said, I appreciate what Redhat have been doing to the open source, I guess it is win-win for the community and its own business goals.

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By the way, my 2017 wildest forecast: Microsoft may acquire Redhat

Red Hat is to some extent protected from acquisition by the ideological poison pill. Because there's no IP (open source), the value of the company is basically the engineering talent, which enables the level of service Red Hat provides. Many of those engineers have very strong opinions about FOSS.

The second a Microsoft (or worse, an Oracle) tried to acquire Red Hat, a huge portion of that talent would walk out the door.

No, the value of RH is in the clients they have, just like every enterprise software company ever.

Oracle is notorious for buying companies for their clients, even if everyone quits (eg, hostile takeover of Sieble)

There is more chance of the pope converting to Islam, then MS acquiring Red Hat. That is one acquisition that would turn to shit over night, and MS would be left with just some logos, as the companies main assets (its engineering) would all walk out the door, followed by customers not renewing subscriptions.

The Microsoft and Red Hat subscriber bases would have massive overlap.

It's 2017. Pope converted to Islam and Trump got elected. Didn't you hear?

2017 forecast... Microsoft acquires Canonical.

that will be the worst, please don't, of course we still have debian.

I've moved to Arch. They can have Debian too.

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