[Video] Fedora Project Lowers Standards as Geeks Walk Away
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Fedora Loses Its Edge
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THE C-suite (high-level) leadership at IBM does not understand GNU/Linux and certainly does not grasp -- or does not even wish to grasp -- copyleft/GPL. We see this in the way they handle CentOS and RHEL. Maybe they wrongly equate community with unpaid volunteers or slaves. That's backfiring really badly on them because what used to be a large technical community and many unpaid packagers (some of them just packaging their own software or applications they fancy) is walking away, insulted by the way IBM runs the project. Even Jim Whitehurst left the company, but he ended up selling Microsoft .NET/Mono.
The video above explains that the "Fedora Community Blog" isn't about a community, it's barely active anymore, and yesterday's post about "Fedora Appreciation Week 2023" seems rather pathetic for all sorts of reasons.
Fedora has adopted people of a low calibre, as noted in Rianne's post and my follow-up. The same is true for other Red Hat/IBM-controlled projects, such as GNOME. The GNOME Foundation welcomed a new Executive Director who was rightly heckled in many sites.
A Fedora project without a real community and with very low budget simply cannot stay ahead. Maybe IBM quit caring about anything but selling support for RHEL; to the point of not caring about the marketing value of a Fedora community and ignoring the reputation damage caused by hoarding patches, rendering RHEL more proprietary. █