Courtesy of Apple, BSD is by a large margin the most successful desktop Unix ever. That's not nothing. And there's nothing stopping the Unix world from taking a second look, if current solutions aren't satisfactory.

Launching is another.

Until I know otherwise, I'll go out on a limb and assume they deserved it.

Well, the homeless and criminals might like luxury apartments, too. We all know that's who's going to wind up living there anyway. Everyone else is bailing.

It was inevitable, I suppose. Never do I see an article mentioning Bezos that doesn't end up collapsing into dick jokes. Maybe Slashdot needs a new icon for Bezos related stories.

About once a month, you'll see an article stating, a) there's new evidence that their might have been life on Mars, or b) there's a promising new treatment for cancer.

This has been going on for about 30 years. Yet we still have cancer and we still don't know if there's ever been life on Mars.

There's only so many times you can cry wolf.....

The mind share of whom? To the people who are actually paying Red Hat money, I doubt this is costing any mindshare at all. It's the people who aren't that are doing all the complaining. I think Red Hat has concluded it won't hurt to just let them scream. They're probably right.

This doesn't look like an IBM move, though. Getting screwed by IBM is usually death by a thousand cuts. Whatever their sins, abruptness isn't typically one of them.

OTOH, RH has been routinely springing unpleasant surprises on their customers since at least the turn of the century. This move is so typically Red Hat I'd bet they'd have still pulled it even if IBM wasn't in the picture.

RedHat has been pulling shenanigans for a long, long time. They don't need any help from IBM for their chicanery.

The Linux ecosystem seems to be going downhill in a hurry.

But who knows? By the time you read this the situation may have changed again.

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