On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:47:18 +0100
Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???> wrote:

> ..could this be Big Blue buying Red Hat to kill systemd?

As I understand, IBM's largest asset licensing its pool of patents.
With that in mind, I think of this purchase of Red Hat as them
attempting to cement control in something fundamental. Not patents,
but software, development, and programmers.

No they won't kill it, they want to own it.