IBM Red Hat's Dogmatic Fanaticism Under a Thin Veil of "Modernism"
IBM now has the audacity to paint people who don't agree as "nazis" (Fedora and Red Hat/IBM people do this all the time, they even call Jews "nazis")
The dogma at Red Hat is rather easy to see. They do not tolerate dissent, even from the so-called 'community' (the little that's left of that). The fashion in which they try to advance a 64-bit-only future, a 'secure boot'-only future, and now a Wayland-or-DIE future is consistently arrogant - that's what IBM earned a reputation for many decades ago. Smug people.
The longer this kind of attitude persists, the smaller the Fedora community (and userbase) will be. Then Fedora itself will die, due to a "lack of demand". Remember what IBM did to CentOS after Red Hat had acquired it and then invested in it.
This past Thursday marked exactly one year since Sam Varghese's last article in ITWire. In 2020 Varghese published the article "Fedora users, move to Debian or openSUSE before Red Hat shafts you". He said this almost half a decade ago. To quote: "Users of the Fedora Linux community distribution would do well to switch over to an alternative like Debian GNU/Linux or openSUSE before Red Hat leaves them in the lurch too. Last week, the company, which is owned by IBM, suddenly announced that it would be dropping CentOS, a distribution that is the same as its own enterprise offering, albeit with the trademarks removed. CentOS, the brainchild of Gregory M. Kurtzer, chief executive of a company known as Control Command, was begun in 2002, and was initially intended "to be a build platform for the new RPM-based community-maintained distribution Caos Linux"."
About Fedora he said: "But if you stick with Fedora, then you might be in for a rude shock sometime in 2021. Or maybe 2022. IBM is a company on the slide and it needs money like a mosquito needs blood. Remember, you have been warned."
"Modernism" or the facade of modernity (or "appeal to novelty" as a common fallacy) is a lie. What IBM wants is uniformity done its own way, with IBM at the centre of the universe: Flatpak, Flathub, Wayland etc.
People who understand IBM's history wouldn't even consider/deem this a divergence. In many ways IBM is like Microsoft; the latter learned many of its dirty business practices from IBM. █