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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 1 day ago by propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev
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They were bought by IBM a few years back, but even aside from that they’re a corporation and they care about making money above all else.

It looks like Red Hat is doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t think the incessant Fedora shilling is unrelated.

It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm all for Linux distributions run and owned by the community. With those we don't have to be afreaid of weird business decisions. Debian is a good example, and very democratic. But I believe several other distros are maintained by a community as well, including Arch, NixOS...

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Fedora is also community operated. Although there's a bit of an informal understanding between RedHat and Fedora to work together.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I didn't know that. Wikipedia says it's only 35% of contributors who are employed by RedHat. But isn't governance split equally between the community and RedHat? So it's not entirely independent, but more a mix?!