The Goal is Software Freedom for All
2024: When (Software) Freedom is the Goal
Software Freedom and RHEL are not compatible. If you want the source code of RHEL, then you must pay IBM and then you're not allowed to share this source code.
That helps show that "Linux" isn't enough. Linux is a brand, and one that got badly distorted by the to legitimise pyramid schemes for Microsoft.
In 2020 Thomas Grzybowski published "Free Software Freedom is Not Linux" and said: "It is often argued that the “Free Software” movement is ideological, and based upon some ivory-tower idealism. Nothing could be further from the truth. As we stated before, Free Software is a practical matter, and if the practices cannot be carried-out or are not carried-out in good faith, the benefits (the Freedoms themselves) are not realized. What we are missing in Free Software, and the Free Software movement today is the ability to fully participate in the Four Freedoms - in particular, but not limited-to, the fourth freedom. Many, if not most of our major software packages distributed today are huge, inflated with features and overly complex - not amenable to the application of the fourth freedom (nor the third). If you have any doubt about this statement, take your current Linux system, make a change in Firefox, and recompile it. Simple. Not. In fact, it is virtually impossible. Try it. I doubt more than one in a thousand Linux users could carry this out. And this is only one example. If you have any more doubt, now try a similar operation with systemd. These observations show the growing gap between the teams of developers behind the software and the community at large."
Grzybowski's post also said: "We would all probably be better-off if they simply folded their tent and let the GNU organization get on with the real movement."
Anything to do with "Linux Foundation" is timewasting. █
Image source: H. M. Tomlinson Regarding, With Not Too Great Enthusiasm, the Perfect State of the Future