Re: Right cause, wrong target
Quite possibly. So instead of not careing about the OS part, since there are plenty of good non-redhat free competitors (being open source and all) and selling other applications on top of it, and creating a new cloud business to rival microsofts, oracle, and aws, they have really pushed the community away. Ubuntu has been making inroads to developer desktops for a long time in businesses that pay for redhat licenses, and those, like me, who ran rhel, or alma, or centos, or.. have been noticing that Ubuntu is becoming the defacto standard Linux and is, in general a better supported platform. This time, the redhat users didnt just scream, many have left. The writing is on the wall. This isn't just a bad decision, this is here to stay. Its time to drop fedora and redhat, and move to debian and ubuntu. My employer still pays for a redhat site license, and with it some redhat products which are not operating systems, but the mind share of wanting to be a redhat shop is out the window. Apps are moving in to containers on debian, workstations are going back to windows or to mac. Now that microsoft has improved and been more open source friendly (including a pretty good WSL2 implementation with, you guessed it, Ubuntu being the defacto OS) All redhat have done is removed one of the major reasons for staying with them if you have made a career of it. Redhat, or IBM, really shot themselves in the foot with this one. Microsoft is the new Redhat, and Redhat is the old Microsoft. And apple.. still apple for better and worse.