"Code of Conduct" Invoked When Fedora and Red Hat Users (Since the 1990s) Don't Want to Use Wayland

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 26, 2025,
updated Jun 26, 2025

The discussions get censored by unelected non-techs (at IBM) who had spent a decade working in an airport, then moved to Red Hat

Yesterday we showed LLM slop being used to promote IBM's business agenda, which basically superseded technical people and desires of the so-called 'community' (i.e. not IBM staff). They just wanted to have choice or freedom. They wanted to still use X. There is nothing wrong with that.

IBM doesn't get freedom. It probably never did.

This is how the discussion was halted:

To make matters worse, IBM is again attacking poor people. How very inclusive.

IBM: blind people, DIE^*!!

Also IBM: poor people, DIE!! (Fedora 44 to phase out i686 support and BIOS abandoned)

That is IBM "DEI".

Buy, buy, buy.

Or bye bye bye.

"IBM doesn't control Fedora Remixes," someone points out in IRC, albeit IBM controls and vigorously (even abusively) enforces the Fedora trademark while it shuts out clones (IBM has an army of lawyers; it doesn't need to send out Jono Bacon to blackmail Ubuntu derivatives like "Satanic Edition").

"The Fedora license policy says you can call something that they don't endorse a "Fedora Remix". I suppose you could rebase on their releases and ship XLibre if you really wanted to. There's almost no real reason to prefer Debian anymore."

Many decisions at Fedora are made by 'former' Red Hat (or IBM) staff. That's another problem.

"The entire debate over everything is now moot and they just follow Fedora on most things other than using RPM. Microsoft Lennart [of systemd and pulseaudio] said one of the goals of his projects was to remove "pointless differences" between distributions. What that means is remove them by force. Make it so hard to go any other route that almost nobody bothers. Now if anyone even dissents they get disappeared from Fedora. That can mean not agreeing with the party line in a change discussion. Eventually you remove anyone who ever will disagree."

Speaking of Lennart and a lack of choice...

The man who started IBM agreed with Hitler and worked with him. █

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^* See for example:

• [Meme] IBM's Brand of Diversity and Inclusion: You Can't Install GNU/Linux If You Are Blind
• IBM's Wayland Has Hurt Blind People, This is How Fedora's DEI Room Talks About That
• Red Hat and IBM Attacking Accessibility (Wayland Doesn't Work for Blind People), More Red Hat Picks
• IBM Does Not Care for the Blind (Wayland Harms Accessibility)