Redhat was great, fedora was a collabration with them and the community, and lots of code (including proprietary code RH bought from 3rd parties and released for free) was contributed to the linux ecosystem by them. An open source ecosystem with dedicated professional enterprise support and tailoring to commercial needs was an excellent model, later mimicked by Ubuntu. I’m not against that.
But of course after 2018, it would be the start of its downfall under IBM ownership. I guess they’re trying to make it more like Windows now. Since they are a tiny arm of a behemoth corp, they’re probably receiving more pressure from their parent to give less to the community while taking more.
I’m definitely not against charging for enterprise class support, but the tipping point for me was requiring an account to even use it. Absolute trash behavior (I’m sure pushed by IBM).
Redhat was great, fedora was a collabration with them and the community, and lots of code (including proprietary code RH bought from 3rd parties and released for free) was contributed to the linux ecosystem by them. An open source ecosystem with dedicated professional enterprise support and tailoring to commercial needs was an excellent model, later mimicked by Ubuntu. I’m not against that.
But of course after 2018, it would be the start of its downfall under IBM ownership. I guess they’re trying to make it more like Windows now. Since they are a tiny arm of a behemoth corp, they’re probably receiving more pressure from their parent to give less to the community while taking more.
I’m definitely not against charging for enterprise class support, but the tipping point for me was requiring an account to even use it. Absolute trash behavior (I’m sure pushed by IBM).