After considering both positions, I made up my mind on the Red Hat situation. While they are probably allowed to do what they’re doing right now, I still feel that not only is it unethical, but it also will harm the entire Linux ecosystem when their business drops in response to their last move, first among hobbyists, and then at the companies these work for.
Here are my thoughts, in a more informal video than usual:
@thelinuxEXP I agree, crushing downstreams is bad and totally against what Open Source is supposed to be.
Maybe I am too mean, but I do hope that this is the end of RHEL. Nobody thought OpenOffice would or could die, but it did.
@thelinuxEXP I guess that the Free Software Foundation carries so little weight nowadays that there's nothing they could do or say that will even be heard by anyone.
@gpowerf I’d prefer them to amend their ways and start being Red Hat again, but, yeah, it blows.