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  • Absolutely it can.

    But Redhat is a huge contributor

    The biggest threat that Linux faces isn’t from Microsoft or other companies. Over the past 30 years, I’ve noticed it is actually from the community. I’ve seen so many cases where the community blows things out of proportion and scares off developers. It sucks. Linux and open source would be so much more successful if we didn’t constantly make open source toxic for companies

    Poor people like Lennart Poettering get shat on constantly too. He could get a much better paying job

    Even right now… VSCode. It’s open source and MIT. People are STILL crapping on Microsoft and saying stuff like “oh wait for the enshittification”, instead of thanking them, or encouraging them for more

    It’s bonkers… There’s so much negative reinforcement out there that it’s scaring people away






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    I was surprised by this comment… Until I saw you just joined here (probably from Reddit) where comments like that get upvoted by bots and it’s a echo chamber which has gone full stupidity as of late in many subs

    There’s literally no evidence of that.

    And the fact he has just endorsed a black woman for president makes it more ridiculous.





  • Half of what you’re writing isn’t really true.

    You’re likely assuming a lot of that.

    Everyone knows that Oracle was the reason. Sorry, but they basically bragged that they stole the latest rhel source code and added an unbreakable kernel. And they purposely targeted Redhats customers with support by stealing their work.

    In other words, their only other choice was to basically close shop… Oracle has been screwing them for years,

    Also, sorry, but is it disrespectful when a company drops a project? We could make that same comment about every project. Also, CentOS is open source, as you said, so anyone can download it . They didn’t.

    You’re also likely assuming they’re not pouring a huge amount of resources into it too

    The perfect current example of rhel improving Linux is pipewire. They are literally unfucking Linux one component at a time in large chunks. It’s insane that people here are treating them so badly.

    In fact, the community has no problems mistreating Linux developers over tiny things, which is why developers like myself which have been badly attacked in the past have stopped contributing


  • To be blunt…

    Redhat contributes a huge amount to the community.

    The only ones who think they’re misstepping or whatever are just making noise and likely aren’t even using RHEL.

    I don’t think people realise exactly how far their contributions go for usability, and getting rid of Redhat of actually a really bad thing for Linux.

    I’d even argue, the only people complaining about this likely don’t contribute anything to Linux anyway…

    The only thing they did is stop oracle pulling their repo, rebranding and selling support slightly cheaper.


  • Yes… Similarly, there are lots of browsers that failed too… KHTML for instance is what Chrome and safari was based off…

    They have a huge number of projects they tried… Including their own mobile phone OS which they were actively shipping (it’s a pity it didn’t survive, would have been nice to have a 3rd OS)

    It’s really a risk / time payoff here. The reality is, when you see projects like this, there are 20 more which fail.

    When you have limited resources, things like Firefox VPN actually make sense, because its low risk (there’s a lot of competitors, but its fast to implement).

    An office suite takes a huge amount of resources, and is a lot of work.

    VPN’s do have their uses. But, I agree… 99% of it is scum marketing