They were bought by IBM a few years back, but even aside from that they’re a corporation and they care about making money above all else.

It looks like Red Hat is doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t think the incessant Fedora shilling is unrelated.

It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Shills or no shills, using Debian does not reduce your reliance on Red Hat software all that much

    Maybe, but if, based on one loud mouth in a Lemmy thread I began a whole intensive programme of de-redhatting my life, that would be a bit dumb ;-)

    But veering a little more away from using Redhat or Fedora, seems a proportionate response to finally feeling there really is bad faith shilling and genuine red flags. My inflammatory language was perhaps just an emotional expression of that.

    Does your distro use systemd? … If so, Red Hat has a lot of influence on the evolution of your distro

    And that was part of the controversy, wasn’t it? And part of why, if vague memory serves, Debian resisted it at first. Perhaps your comment vindicates them!

    I also think not being idiotic means acknowledging facts.

    Sounds like a pretty sensible policy :) Thanks