I left Ubuntu when they sent all my dock search history to Amazon. But this time is different, should I leave Fedora considering how much it is developed by Red Hat?
I’ve actively defended this distribution and Red Hat for many years now and I’m deep in their technology but I want to avoid being a Devil’s Advocate.
It seemed to be a clear cut business move to hurt Alma and Rocky Linux from gaining anymore traction after pulling CentOS. Do you want to use a development distribution from a company that acts this way? I personally don’t care for their push for Flatpak either (bloated security mess). RHEL does allow for 16 free installs (guys learning or testing usually run the open and free versions). But it looks like they’re at least better than Ubuntu about telemetry. Just seems like a douche move for a free software company which points to the character of the people running the megacorp. And the threat to cut customers off that release the source code is also in poor taste. Seems to me that Red Hat is scared that Alma and Rocky will cut into their business and might be able to do a better job with support than a large and usually dysfunctional megacorp.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/rocky_linux_rhel_ripples/
Great Geerling recap on Youtube: https://youtu.be/kF5pyVUQBH8