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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 22 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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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

@just_another_person I've been using Linux in a commercial setting since 1991 when you had to compile you're own kernel and userland, and I am using it commercially today, so no I am not an amateur user. Ad hominem attacks don't benefit anyone.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Nah, you weren't. Nobody was using it in a "commercial setting" in 1991. In fact, it didn't even do anything in 1991 boot sort of boot, and it had a somewhat functional input and TCP/IP stack if you were lucky enough to even keep it stable enough. People weren't even using it in research settings in 1991 for this reason, because the very basic running kernel released in September of that year with ZERO functionality but the above.

I don't even want to continue to railing on you, but your post history has all the facts of your first uses of Linux in between a bunch of far-right conspiracy junk, anti-vax ranting, and Doomsday Prepper thoughts, and then a bunch of overstating your expertise in seemingly everything that contradicts previous statements you change at will to make a point.

You're just a sub-par Internet troll, guy. The fact you even asked this question is hilarious because you don't understand the need for LTS focused releases of a distro 😂