Deep Red: The Beginning of the End of a Familiar Open Source Business Model?

In a surprise move, IBM announced [https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider?lnk=ushpv18l1&lnk2=learn] that they are going to acquire Red Hat. At $34B, this is one of the largest software acquisitions in history. This blog post walks through some of the implications of this acquisition on Commercial…