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Don't forget Red Hat, a company that makes it living from FOSS, apparently now also hates FOSS...
by EdwardDiego 6y ago
Don't forget Red Hat, a company that makes it living from FOSS, apparently now also hates FOSS...
- prepend 6y agoThere’s multiple angles. I think RedHat is more for PR for IBM. I don’t think it’s binary in that RedHat is owned by a company that has other motivations than when RedHat was independent.
- EdwardDiego 6y agoRed Hat is still largely independent of IBM.
- prepend 6y agoTrue, but I think there’s “cancel risk” (or whatever you call it) to IBM were RedHat to do something like sell software to ICE or whatever is an action that people boycott/campaign on. People were threatening Microsoft because of GitHub’s actions. I think it’s reasonable that a lawyer at IBM identified this area to message whatever is supposed to be right and talked with RedHat to coordinate signing or whatnot. I think it’s weird that corporations make these kinds of moral/ethical statements.
- busterarm 6y agoRedHat has been on the road it's on long before the acquisition by IBM.
- akagusu 6y agoIBM bought RedHat to control the second most important piece of software that makes part of major Linux distributions.
- max1truc 6y agoYeah, but the Linux Foundation is, well, about Linux, which is GNU GPL licensed I think... I seems to me the friendliest "enemy" on this list.
- dmos62 6y agoAuthor points out that Red Hat killed CentOS, which had a significant community.