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I'm usually against the stupid cancelation culture, but, please, can we finally cancel Red Hat that is subtly doing so much harm to the open source community an
by greatgib 6y ago
I'm usually against the stupid cancelation culture, but, please, can we finally cancel Red Hat that is subtly doing so much harm to the open source community and software since a few years?
They have already taken hostage a lot of things in the open source communities thanks to they huge financial power; and now they are also trying to take hostage the Free Software Foundation...
I hope that the US tax authorities will go after them for any deduction they could have benefited following their donations, because of the rude difference between the gift of donation, and giving money to buy something.
I'm not sure if I would personally support RMS or not, but it is the duty of the FSF board to take this decision without being blackmailed by some corporation.
https://time.com/1861/charity-doing-good-is-bad/ https://time.com/1861/charity-doing-good-is-bad/
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoRed Hat is still funding the work of some developers on Free Software so "cancelling" them would have a negative net result.
- clhrust 6y agoThe funding works for projects like gcc or Linux, which still retain some of the original OSS principles. In other projects the presence of paid RedHat developers is a net negative due to their overbearing and controlling behavior. The latter would be somewhat excusable if their contributions were stellar, but they aren't.