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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 2 days 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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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development

I'm interested in any examples you can provide of this

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

Say, they do almost no development of Xorg, but they don't surrender the control of the project to someone who'd want to. They don't accept PR's, sometimes with responses that the project itself is deprecated or something.

They intentionally keep control, to avoid someone picking it up.