Summary: Fedora suffers from software patents, hence it removes features while IBM lobbies for such patents and gives software patents to patent trolls (in patent sales)

In our Daily Links, over the past 3-4 days in particular, we've included about half a dozen links about Fedora removing support for some very important functionality. Other distros as well follow suit, all for patent reasons. Meanwhile Microsoft is shoving those patent traps into WSL, having paid for or gotten a patent licence. This is already being brought up in Phoronix Forums (link intentionally omitted, but it's certainly there and it's quoted in our IRC channels).

"In other words, IBM is arguably an enemy of Fedora itself and its policies harm GNU/Linux on the desktop."What does that have to do with patents? The removal of the feature, which many consider to be essential, is said to be due to "patent trolls", but nobody wishes to name "software patents". IBM (which controls Fedora) not only lobbying for software patents; it's also arming such trolls with software patents.

In other words, IBM is arguably an enemy of Fedora itself and its policies harm GNU/Linux on the desktop. We're one of the very few sites that dare mention this perfectly factual point. ⬆