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Gnome is a healthy non-profit foundation with the majority of its organizational capacity (and income) not associated with Red Hat. Red Hat hasn't been dominan
by sho_hn 3y ago
Gnome is a healthy non-profit foundation with the majority of its organizational capacity (and income) not associated with Red Hat.
Red Hat hasn't been dominant in Wayland for years. It's very much a community effort, including governance and maintainership.
systemd is currently mostly developed by employees of Microsoft, Meta and Suse, aside from I guess Frantisek.
Red Hat does a lot, and I'm sure they have thoughts about where they spend their money, but I don't think people really understand how decoupled these projects and communities are.
- admax88qqq 3y agoIt's funny how people view GNOME/systemd as some sort of conspiracy rather than it just being what the people who contribute want to work on.
- mardifoufs 3y agoCorporate strategy isn't conspiracy. I think it's even weirder to think redhat would just provide resources in return of nothing at all, or that redhat employees won't be biased towards steering the ship according to their employers best interest. Like I genuinely don't think Gnome or systemd or Fedora would just use a ubuntu/canonical-built core system even if it was superior in every way And hey I'm not complaining, I use systemd (indirectly) and gnome almost everyday. I don't care where the software comes from, really, I'm just glad I can use it. But that doesn't mean we can't be aware of the power dynamics around it :)
- happymellon 3y agoWhat about Upstart? It was significantly better than sysvinit and Debian, Fedora, RHEL6, OpenSUSE all adopted it. Even though it came out of Canonical. It was replaced by Systemd because that did concurrency in the dependency management, which Upstart didn't, and was never designed to do, so was going to require a lot of rework to support.