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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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[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't trust anyone with a red hat. Is Red Hat the MAGA of Linux?

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

There is not much criticism of Red Hat? What? In what universe? I never see the name Red Hat absent the army of detractors they attract.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Power of what sort?

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

IBM is evil (literally making NAZI death camps possible)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

If it wasn’t for IBM the Holocaust couldn’t have happened.

So morally move away from them as soon as you can justify.

The alternatives provide better support anyway

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

🙄

This dumb thread comes up every few years from paranoid people new to the community who don't understand how this ecosystem works.

There are countless threads and blog posts about this, so I'm not sure why you're bringing your paranoia here to kick up some fear mongering or whatever your intent is, but let me break it down for you:

Fedora is its own entity
Red Hat is a for-profit company
Red Hat doesn't own Fedora
Red Hat contributes assets to many FOSS initiatives, not just Fedora
Yes, some RH employees also work on Fedora. It's free contribution. Same as Canonical, Valve, IBM, Universities, and other private companies.
There is nothing to be "weary" of because if something were to change about the Fedora ecosystem that didn't benefit users, guess what? There will be instant forks, and a massive shift away from that community. Red Hat knows this because they aren't fools.
People aren't "shilling" for Fedora. It's the new standard for well-built and easy to run distro since Canonical decided to ruin Ubuntu (see point #6)

Red Hat EMPLOYS many contributors straight out of open source projects, and also just directly funds projects they want to see improve. So do other corporate entities. You know Redis was basically single-handedly funded by Amazon for multiple years so the project would upstream features they requested? Also many Apache projects, memcached, ELK, Grafana...etc.

Get outta here with the shit-stirring for absolutely no good reason 🤦

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