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Red Bait, Proprietary Microsoft

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2024

This is proprietary software that does not even (no, not really) run on GNU/Linux. Under IBM, Red Hat will become more like Microsoft reseller. This week (MLK Day) in the official blog:

Stratis-managed file systems for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft SQL Server on Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux

“People that use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us.”

--Steve Ballmer

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