When it comes to Linux Distros, each are either managed by their community or by a company. With recent news, it becomes clearer than ever that those managed…

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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty happy with my Tumbleweed installation, and I don’t think I’ll be leaving anytime soon.

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      1 year ago

      Right? Like it or not, we live in a society dominated by money. A very small number of Linux distributions have found a way to sustainably produce an excellent product. That’s a good thing. The alternatives are either burnout or insecurity.

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        1 year ago

        And let’s not forget that a lot of contributions to Linux have come from Red Hat and other companies.

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      1 year ago

      RedHat is only going to provide source code to their paying customers. This is legally compliant with the GPL. This has made a lot of people mad because there are a lot of distros that are essentially copy/pasted Redhat code that people use.

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    1 year ago

    @wave_walnut Thanks, the recap was important to understand what happened so far. As it seems, the writing was on the wall. Now I understand why so many was against Red Hat, similar to how they were against Canonical (but for other reasons).

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      In the past, I’ve got upvotes for dissing Canonical. The funny thing is that I’d get downvotes instead if I replace Canonical with Ubuntu.