IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

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      IBM will still sell you a brand new, updated mainframe in 2023.

      They’re also in the open source software space (IBM owns Red Hat, a software company that has a lot of projects for Linux. Red Hat has their own Linux distro too)

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        Which threats users to had their subscription cancelled when they share the source code according to GPL.

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          Yeah. I agree with ya there, Red Hat screwed over Alma and Rocky with that decision. I can see the utility of those two distros for testing before committing to RHEL.

          Plus, if Oracle has room to try to be the “good guys”, you’ve really screwed up

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            Nobody was “testing” rhel by using Rocky or Alma, they just didn’t want to pay for it. I mean you can test actual rhel for free!

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              Nah. Deploy Rocky or Alma in mass. Have RHEL for a few machines. When you got a problem, reproduce it in RHEL and call support.

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      We did away with that pesky business failures. Now all corporate are eternal.

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      I knew they were a thing because I run into them in IT from time to time… but had no idea they owned the weather channel. Wild.