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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 22:15:15 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Free Software sustainability news feed
   
   Changelog curates some feeds with content from all over the web. Here's one on the topic of Free Software sustainability, well worth watching:
   
   cdn.changelog.com/topic/sustai…
   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 22:17:37 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      It doesn't seem to be available as an actual feed, only as a web page.
   2. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 22:30:49 EST Strypey

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      @clacke just had a look. Saw a headline that says IBM is acquiring Red Hat *facepalm*. This in the wake of MS buying GH. Finding effective ways to coordinate and *fund* commons development outside corporate control has never been more urgent #PlatformCooperatives

      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 26-Nov-2018 22:46:59 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         That's not only one the biggest open source acquisition ever, it's even one of the largest acquisitions in general. Huge news. We're still scrambling to understand what it means.
         
         The main observation I have is that IBM is much smaller than I thought. They have been shrinking over the years. The Red Hat component is a huge chunk of the new IBM, 25% in terms of market cap, and Red Hat is continually growing in terms of revenue. They won't want to kill that well-functioning business model.
         
         I think there is a strong possibility that this acquisition affects IBM more than it affects Red Hat.
         
         Something else that I learned is that IBM's main focus these days is "hybrid cloud", combinations of hosted services and on-premise services. That's why Red Hat was important to them, because of OpenShift and all that.
         
         As IBM's main focus is now services and solutions rather than software, and several of Red Hat's software products are in direct competition with IBM's (e.g. JBoss vs WAS), it's going to be very interesting to see what happens to IBM's software portfolio over the next five years.