You could hire away a bunch of folks for $34 billion.
And the way these tech takeovers usually work, a bunch of the guys at the takeover target are going to be gone within 18 months. Sure, some of them can have their knowledge extracted before they flee or are discarded, but 6 figure signing bonuses could probably reach the same result a lot cheaper.
You said the software was free. I was merely pointing out that actually using it in a production environment is not free.
And I think the Red Hat purchase for $35,000,000,000 is idiocy.
I think it’s a sign of worse things to come.