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Anything Red Hat. Screw GPL corporatism.
Had to scroll way too far for this.
Hey, they at least prioritise contributing upstream. Canonical is much worse.
No hate for canonical or suse, just redhat?
Suse would get more hate if they stopped working with opensuse. Canonical provides their stuff publicly, except for long term support after five years, but that decision does get hate.
And that doesn't extend to Fedora and free RHEL licences? Or all of the FOSS projects redhat is funding and contributing to? No demerits for Suse helping MS pressure the entire Linux community for over a decade?
You can still get the redhat source code with the free licence, GPL ensures that. You just can't act like Oracle, reskin RHEL, and sell enterprise support for it.
Meanwhile there are businesses that literally don't release any of their improvements to FOSS software because it's running on their servers and so they don't have to. Now that really goes against the core ideology of GPL 2 which is: "I give you my code, you give me your changes".
Publicly traded companies almost always make shitty capitalist decisions. Now, remember that canonical sold user data to Amazon, played ads in the terminal, and that their IPO is still in the works.
A limited number of free licenses. Fedora is far upstream, the SUSE/openSUSE relationship is different. Plenty of people were mad over Novell and Microsoft, that is ancient history today and suse has gone through at least two different owners since then.
People can disagree with Red Hat and also disagree with those businesses. Not an either/or. People have hated on Canonical forever. Some people hate any corporate distro. Red Hat is just the latest to make shitty decisions.