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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Settle down Nancy. There's hundreds of linux distributions currently, some targeted towards desktop/gaming, and some targeted to the server and enterprise spaces. RedHat has always been the latter.
Let's not get all Shakespearean dramatic about it, ok?
I mean RH is a big contributor to open source in general. I do not look forward to how they are behaving lately.
Exactly, and they have been for years. How fucking entitled do people need to be to advocate for "free and open source" software and then turn around and removed and moan when a corporate entity decides to shift focus to something that doesn't benefit them directly?