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For the longest time, Mozilla was synonymous with the Firefox browser, but for the last few years, Mozilla has started to look beyond Firefox, especially

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Where does all of this leave the Firefox browser. Surman argued that the organization is very judicious about rolling AI into the browser — but he also believes that AI will become part of everything Mozilla does. “We want to implement AI in a way that’s trustworthy and benefits people,” he said. Fakespot is one example of this, but the overall vision is larger. “I think that’s what you’ll see from us, over the course of the next year, is how do you use the browser as the thing that represents you and how do you build AI into the browser that’s basically on your side as you move through the internet?” He noted that an Edge-like chatbot in a sidebar could be one way of doing this, but he seems to be thinking more in terms of an assistant that helps you summarize articles and maybe notify you proactively. “I think you’ll see the browser evolve. In our case, that’s to be more protective of you and more helpful to you. I think it’s more that you use the predictive and synthesizing capabilities of those tools to make it easier and safer to move through the internet.”

To be fair, there are (or were) lots of distros downstream of RHEL marketing themselves as drop-in replacements, not just Oracle. And this move isn’t likely to stop Oracle (and the rest), only make the transition experience less smooth for clients (ultimately all the downstream distros can just rebase off of CentOS Stream instead; they lose “bug for bug” compatibility, but will still largely be drop-in replacements).

I also find it hard to muster any sympathy for IBM of all people, even when their opponent is Oracle (who are the lowest of the low).

Which distro’s though?

Oracle is literally marketing against, and attacking Redhat directly: https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle Linux and Virtualization/560992_1.html

I think it is directly related to Oracle, as Oracle literally is just RHEL, with cheaper support (which they can afford to do, because their development costs are tiny compared to RHEL, if they just copy the code every release).

The others I’ve seen used it as a base, but aren’t really competing in the same way. CentOS also wasn’t providing commercial support… Either is Fedora. Commercial / Enterprise support is how Redhat makes money. And that’s how Oracle is planning to make money too

Also, what is wrong with IBM? I don’t recall them doing anything bad for open source. they fought SCO, and have contributed a lot to the community

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