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by markkrj 1344 days ago
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.
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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.