[cfarm-users] more on POWER9?

[Luke Yasuda]

On 2026-02-17 00:35, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 at 15:05, Luke Yasuda via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Anyway, just a few years ago IBM called CentOS users (and devs?) "free
>> loaders",
> 
> [citation needed]

Here is a block quote (originally in a paragraph in bold) from the post 
[1] made by IBM's VP (primary source), and it pretty much sums up 
everything I and many people in the mailing list want to disagree:

```
I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the 
downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for 
the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to 
repackage it for their own profit. This demand for RHEL code is 
disingenuous.
```

This pissed off many people. I knew this from a blogger and a youtuber 
Jeff Geerling's post [2] (secondary source). You can see Jeff's reaction 
as a former user of "Enterprise Linux".

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes
[2] 
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux/


>> so I am less than happy to support their (another even more)
>> proprietary platform and compiler, even if our corporate overlord IBM
>> sponsors us a license. Sorry, no AIX.
>> 
>> Cheers,

Cheers again,
-- 
Luke Yasuda
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