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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 21 hours ago by propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

They make you sign into their support portal to view most of their documentation and download most of their software. That right there is a deal breaker for me because it violates the spirit of open source.