> but much harder to justify banging on public companies for trying to increase revenue
I assure you, it is very easy to be unhappy with a company for screwing over its users, even if they think it might net them more revenue (bonus points for this being a questionable assumption)
Well, if you ignore the history of Red Hat. It used to be "the" Linux company, a paragon of what you can achieve by combining business acumen of the corporate world with complete transparency of the open source process.
When the first clones of RHEL appeared, they received C&D letters about the use of "Red Hat" in the name, so they complied and started to replace the branding before recompiling. Who would expect that the only free-as-in beer RHEL clone we'll be able to use will be Oracle Linux.
I’m deeply interrogated by Atlassian forcefully moving users to the cloud.
It’s as if, in 5 years, we developers wouldn’t have a safe Linux to deploy on, and then we’d be required to use Amazon Linux or GCP Linux, the other ones being not officially supported and therefore not insured in case of leak, or not approved for PCI or PII or GDPR or...
I assure you, it is very easy to be unhappy with a company for screwing over its users, even if they think it might net them more revenue (bonus points for this being a questionable assumption)