On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:00:58 -0700, spiralofhope wrote in message
<20181029060058.7d7b7992@1A.1A>:

> 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.

..I find your take on this, disturbingly credible.
But Big Blue has also done incredible good things:
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20061212211016210
as we (125,000?) Groklawians documented in: http://groklaw.net/

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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