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I don't know much about Fedora, haven't run it in years. But there are quite a few open source projects that are effectively dominated by RH employees. In a few
by _jal 4y ago
I don't know much about Fedora, haven't run it in years. But there are quite a few open source projects that are effectively dominated by RH employees. In a few that I've had interest in, it was pretty clear the direction was being project-managed by RH.
I think they've learned to try to keep it subtle, but they wield a lot of power in the open source world, not just via their distributions and direct contributions.
- thrown_22 4y agoI've found that every major controversy in Linux can be traced to someone working in redhat or someone working in microsoft. It's uncanny.
- DSMan195276 4y agoI suppose the more charitable way to look at it is that groups like Red Hat (and now Microsoft) are the ones interesting in paying the people looking to do that work. Which is not to say it doesn't give them a lot of sway, but there's also only so many volunteer hours and you'll inevitably get more work done than others if you're getting paid to do it 40+ hours a week.
- boudin 4y agoIt's definitely part of it, the fact that they are major contributors makes their work much more visible. There's some amazing contributions from Redhat employees like Pipewire. They are one of the only companies investing into Linux as a desktop os and, personally, I do appreciate that.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoIs there a complete list? I can think of systemd.