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Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops - Fedora Magazine
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Fedora may receive backing from RH, but it's still community-ran. Similar to how Linux itself is backed by the likes of Google/Meta/Huawei/etc but is isn't ran by them.
And they didn't close-source RHEL. I don't like the license changes they made either, but calling it closed source is inaccurate.
If you're a customer of theirs, you can see the source code. The license customers agree to is certainly a restriction, but it's not all of a sudden closed/proprietary software.
And finally, despite that recent move, RH remains probably the biggest contributor to desktop Linux. If you want to avoid their work... good luck. It's literally everywhere.
Are you saying that their source code is not published except to licensees?
You're basically saying that something isn't wet, it just has water on it.
TIL GPL is a proprietary licence