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by jnardiello 1339 days ago
As an opensource lover, you gotta appreciate redhat registering a "containers" organisation with rh-only maintained projects. True OSS philosophy at work here!
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That's not true. There are projects which are not maintained by RH. Also, anybody could have registered that name before RH... You could have done so.
Mate, I've been working in this space for long enough to know exactly what I'm talking about.

Podman, Buildah, Skopeo and Crun are ALL redhat projects. OSS = Open code (ok) + Open Governance (not ok). In the "containers" org there are currently 23 maintainers, 99% RedHat employees (with a few indies - you always want students contributing for free). This is a great example of enterprise OSS shitshow, whereas a large org register a fake org on github with an intended "open" name - but keep close control on the governance of projects and tries to push (implicitly) its technological stack as a standard.

Disclaimer: I fucking hate enterprise vendors.

Not to mention Openshift.
That is if GitHub doesn't let a big organization with a lot of money take it from you.
that's a "non issue" - commercial companies are vendor-locked with cloud on conscious decision so it doesnt matter - they pay for everything (an sometimes multiple times),

and any orgs that treasure open source philosophy either forking or not touching anything of redhat with a long pole.