• MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    Sadly, message does not list a dollar amount. Replies are great though. Lots of pointing out the listed items are small compared to corporation size.

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      11 months ago

      Also I see “Red Hat” thrown around a lot. There’s no Red Hat anymore, it’s IBM, and IBM’s target user is a RHEL customer.

      I’m willing to bet most people commenting on Mastodon (and here for that matter) have very little in common with a RHEL customer. IBM, like Valve with the Deck, have very specific use cases in mind and can afford to support a Wayland-based desktop for those particular circumstances.

      But does IBM care about the desktop needs of the average Linux user? I doubt it.

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        11 months ago

        Great point. IBM has a long history of squeezing every penny from their customers. At one corner job, IBM had to come onsite a few times a year to perform system updates. We were not allowed by IBM to upgrade the OS ourselves.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, I never take people seriously when they say something is ‘too expensive’ but willfully obscure what that price actually is.

      I’m less of a useful idiot because of it.