I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
I don&#x27;t think this sort of emotional, loose-facted &quot;hot take&quot; style response is real constructive.  I&#x27;m unhappy about this decision by Red Hat, and am also very concerned about the trajectory RH is on.  For the first time in well over a decade I&#x27;m re-evaluating which ecosystem to base all my work (and the company(ies) for who I make decisions).  I don&#x27;t believe that Red Hat&#x27;s leadership cares a whole lot about open source anymore.  If they do, they&#x27;ve demonstrated that they are willing to harm open source in order to (short-term at least) increase sales. (congrats salespeople, you finally won and killed CentOS.  And congrats to all the people who used to tell the salesperson &quot;I can run CentOS for free, why should I buy RHEL?&quot;)<p>But that said, as far as I know, <i>one guy</i> used the term &quot;freeloaders&quot; and the context wasn&#x27;t clear at all who he was talking about, and certainly not clear whether that is one person&#x27;s opinion or the company&#x27;s opinion.  I find it incredibly unlikely that he was talking about people who used CentOS and actually contributed to the community.  But either way, attributing that to Red Hat as a whole is completely unfair and unproductive.  Every big organization is going to have at least one person with an opinion they don&#x27;t agree with, and painting the entire org with the brush of one person is fallacious.<p>What&#x27;s the goal here?  Is it to polarize into good and evil sides?  Get people to dig in and defend their ground for fear of the &quot;other side&quot; seizing their words or decisions and holding it over them?<p>I like a lot of OP&#x27;s content, but I am a little worried that he&#x27;s a little too immersed in the Youtube success formula of tapping into emotions (particularly rage and anger) and it&#x27;s driving him to a very emotional take on this issue.