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  • @UrbenLegend@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though? Not sure what they’re trying to achieve with this move that isn’t detrimental to their business.

    • @canpolat@programming.devEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      I think, in the short run, they are hoping some percentage of Rocky/Alma users will migrate to RHEL. I don’t believe they are really thinking about the long term.

    • meat_popsicle
      2•1 year ago

      Squeeze the existing users for cash.

      The enterprises will just pay it. It’ll be cheaper than a migration for critical servers.

      Corps pull the same gameplay each time:

      1. Buy product
      2. Jack prices to the roof
      3. Kill R&D and enshittify support to minimize cost
      4. Extract profit until other products make a higher profit margin
      5. Shutdown support and repeat with a new product
    • @bishopolis@lemmy.caEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though?

      I can only recommend you look at the last decade of IBM’s history in that respect.