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wmf on Oct 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Econo...

Back in the early days of enterprise Linux, IBM wanted to avoid Red Hat becoming a monopoly so they backed SUSE (and later Ubuntu) quite a bit.

h1d on Oct 29, 2018 [–]

And then it got too big for IBM to pay a fortune to stop taking its pie?

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