[musicale]

> making it obvious ...that no one gives a flying f*k about "free as in freedom" because all the uprising was always about either the free beer

Indeed - Red Hat is making it obvious that IBM (like most large companies) views open source as free beer - or rather free labor.

It's great when they get other people's labor for free, as long as they don't have to give away any of their own.

[solarengineer]

Per this link: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source-program-office/c...

"Communities we contribute to

Red Hat is a proud contributor to all aspects of the software stack, from the operating system and developer toolchain to middleware, desktop, and cloud. We financially support a number of open source organizations who help us create and maintain better open source software. We also contribute to a wide range of standardization efforts that help define future, interoperable technologies."

If RedHat were exaggerating, then those named communities would have called RedHat out by now.

[geerlingguy]

I've seen plenty of posts on Twitter, Medium, on the Fedora mailing list, and elsewhere by individual contributors and industry veterans (some of whom had storied careers at Red Hat) who are not happy with Red Hat's decision.

[pjmlp]

Lots of free beer in Linux exist because Red-Hat and IBM made it happen in first place.

As did some of the other beloved giants over here.