winety

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[–] winety 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t think the current Red Hat controversy will have much impact on Fedora. There are the three reasons why I think so:

  • While Fedora is not a fully independent distribution, the Fedora Council has both members from Red Hat and members from the community. It may be wishful thinking, but I believe that, if Red Hat tried something iffy with Fedora, the community (including people in leading positions) would protest.
  • Fedora is upstream from RHEL, so it doesn’t directly profit from RHEL source codes being fully open. Instead, it’s the other way around; Fedora’s sources are the basis of CentOS and then RHEL, so any bugs fixed in Fedora benefit RHEL.
  • Fedora is also Red Hat’s tool for influencing the Linux ecosystem at large. When they want other people start using some technology (Flatpak, PulseAudio etc.), Fedora is a good way of disseminating it.

P.S. There might be some inaccuracies. I am just a user; I am neither a developer nor in any leadership role.

P.P.S. Please excuse any spelling and grammar mistakes. English is not my first language.

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