• Flickertail@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    *sigh* Do I have to go abandon Fedora now too? I really hope they don’t pull a CentOS on that one

    • hozl@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I highly doubt this would affect Fedora. Thankfully, it’s community driven and self-goverened so Red Hat execs can’t go and tell them what to do. (Though I don’t know how many ties the Fedora council had to Red Hat)

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    2 years ago

    Wow what the hell, this is the first I’m hearing of this change. I use Rocky Linux for my server atm and I was thinking I liked it for server use quite a lot more than Fedora, but if they’re going to do this then I’m going to have to jump ship unfortunately. Maybe I’ll go back to Debian. Or even better, maybe I’ll try using Devuan in a prod server setup for once?

    I’m super not happy to have to jump ship again though when I JUST settled into something I’m comfortable with that works near perfectly well for my usecases, after multiple years of jumping around undecided.

    E: Although I did just read that statement from the Rocky Linux team, and maybe it’ll be fine? But I’m still gonna prepare to move just in case this fucks over the Rocky Linux ecosystem anyways

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      2 years ago

      I don’t know about that. IBM is traditionally stupid, yeah, but they wanted Red Hat for a reason. The CentOS debacle altogether was Red Hat, not IBM, and I don’t think they are doing too much day to day operational mandates for stuff like this. I would not be surprised if this was just a Red Hat thing. I know it’s easy to blame IBM, but I don’t think it’s that simple.

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        2 years ago

        they wanted Red Hat for a reason.

        They were dying and they needed a cash cow to milk. The only way that was gonna work is if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it. And they can’t stop, so they’re just kicking away.

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          2 years ago

          if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it

          I miss Cringely’s take on this.