[rainbow29822]

That's a pretty negative way to make an innocuous statement: that it's expensive to make an OS. You can't expect Red Hat (or any other Linux company) to maintain backwards compatibility forever for every single possible project they've ever had an employee contribute to. They'll maintain some as long as their customers pay to support it for that long, but even that ends after a while. Yes, if you don't want to pay them for it, then you get to spend the immense amount of time and money needed to fork it; because shipping a full commercial operating system with millions of lines of code is a complex task with a lot of interlocking parts and no one wants to do it for free. It makes no sense to single out complaints towards random projects for this.