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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Please don't fuck up my beloved fedora. Kind regards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's most probably IBM forcing it, but yeah it's dumb.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

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