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Ted Tso gives some insight on the LKML on the Red Hat & IBM approach to software (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/7/6/1228

From Ted, the ext4 maintainer, on the LKML a few days ago.

The thread is about mainlining bcachefs but the post from Ted, who from what little I know seems about as trustworthy as ext4 has been over the past few decades, gives an interesting overview of the business approaches to software of IBM, Red Hat, Google & Sun Microsystems.

Of general interest to myself but mainly posting as it seems relevant to the recent changes in RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alma & Fedora over the past few weeks/years and gives some context of how we got where we are from ~2010.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP's argument is mostly this

IBM hosted that meeting, but ultimately, never did contribute any developers to the btrfs effort. That's because IBM had a fairly cold, hard examination of what their enterprise customers really wanted, and would be willing to pay $$$, and the decision was made at a corporate level (higher up than the Linux Technology Center, although I participated in the company-wide investigation) that none of OS's that IBM supported (AIX, zOS, Linux, etc.) needed ZFS-like features,because IBM's customers didn't need them.

So it's about money and they don't care about innovation or anything like it. Just like Microsoft.

It's such a shame that Red Hat was sold to these guys, Red Hat did so much good for the linux community.

But this is all in the past now, we won't see any improvements coming from them that don't directly relate to company profits.