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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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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a good example of RH shilling.

Also not uncommon to see "community activists" popping up here and there, with no history at all, doing small things and then somehow participating in coordinated RH-aligned action eventually. Remember that moment Stallman was pressed into defense? Not that he's a very nice person, but the campaign was interesting in the sense that not many normal people participated in it, mostly such activists.

Also Fedora and "well-built" - it's glossy and smooth-looking, but not "well-built".

Also this

from paranoid people new to the community who don’t understand how this ecosystem works.

is a marker of RH shill too. They usually start with casually stating that everyone is fine with RH and the only ones complaining are noobs, nuts and troublemakers, we don't do that here. Except it's not true.

Quantity of development doesn't equal quality. I personally think if RH were to vanish overnight, Linux would be fine. Of course nobody spends additional effort on projects mostly done by RH. If there's no RH, either the projects will be dropped for lack of necessity or there will be said effort from other sources.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

Also Fedora and “well-built” - it’s glossy and smooth-looking, but not “well-built”.

Example from experience: dnf requires more than 1G to do a system update. Try to run in on a minimal VPS and dnf will keep getting OOM killed.