There's Apparently a New Boss (or Policy) at Red Hat/IBM
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-07-13 20:46:39 UTC
- Modified: 2020-07-13 20:46:39 UTC
Summary: The Fedora project doesn't seem to care much about free speech, no matter one's seniority in the project; as the person who relayed it to us has just put it, "they even eat their own." (Longtime contributors) "He's not a troll. He's a contributor who rubbed some people the wrong way and now the banhammer is coming out. Fedora KDE was already collapsing and now it finally will." (Note: Rex Dieter leads or led this project)
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