Red Hat Pretends to Have "Community Commitment to Open Source" While Scuttling the Fedora Community (Among Others)
A couple of days ago Red Hat issued a post [1] entitled The Red Hat community commitment to open source, citing Gitnux, "A Global Commerce Media LLC Company" (proprietary). Well, judging by the company's handling of CentOS and Fedora, it's hard to see any real commitment. Flock 2023 seems like Red Hat [2], not a real community. RHEL is becoming more proprietary over time and community seems to boil down to unpaid volunteers (at least that's how IBM see the "community").
If one looks for healthier communities, ones with actual commitment to stakeholders other than IBM, there are RHEL derivatives (or still just clones) that have the same certifications as RHEL [3]. Better yet, however, to lessen the dependence on IBM one could choose another kind of distro altogether.
More than a decade ago Canonical could still say that Ubuntu had a community or was a community. Now that all the formalities are gone, Canonical can claim no such thing. Communities have drifted elsewhere and they don't work for IBM shareholders or MS (Mark Shuttleworth).
About a decade ago Red Hat spoke of "commitment" and "community" in relation to software patents. Red Hat is now owned and controlled by the most active lobbyist for software patents. Instead of investing in patent reform (removing restrictions) they go out there looking for "clown" (cloud) opportunities, even with Microsoft. █
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The Red Hat community commitment to open source
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Fedora Community Blog: CPE at Flock 2023
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