Introducing Incus

Posted Aug 11, 2023 5:35 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Introducing Incus by ringerc
Parent article: Introducing Incus

The way I see it, that's an instance of "two types of software, the type everyone complains about and the type nobody uses".

People are angry at RedHat/IBM because the course of action it's taken seems out of character and self-destructive in the long run. I don't think anybody here is sincerely rooting for it to fail, not after picking a fight with SCO & MS on our behalf.

They aren't talking about Oracle because the consensus on it has been persona non grata for a *long* time. Oracle does not make any software people want to use; it sits on the wrong side of a dozen prominent forks and makes a legal nuisance of itself. The only interesting thing out of that company in recent memory is a gratis VPS offering, and even then "interesting" is a pejorative - it's just another spam/abuse haven.

(Having wrote all that I'm not sure how Canonical fits into the binary. Their desktop offering is a net good but their enterprise side and its obsession with control reminds me of a robodialler insurance scam. This LXD situation in particular stands out as a huge red flag.)