How do you think Redhat got in the door? People like me and my friends way back in the day staying late and porting our product over on our own time and convincing management to make it an offering. People like us who were our client's pet neckbeards convincing them it was ok to go with our Linux offering. No one buys Redhat without an application to run on top of it. That's how they cracked large market industries. Not on their own, but from good will from neckbeards who found it fun to spend their weeknights on a skunk works port on a frankenputer we hacked together (corporate was happy to stay with just offering SCO).
The Redhat that this last week has been on an anti-neckbeard crusade saying 'we aren't the distro for your type' to those of us who got them in the market is what is disappointing. It's like you help your friend become part of your larger friends group and then they ghost you when they don't need you anymore and are 'too cool' for you. So yeah, fuck off Redhat. They can do whatever they want, but they won't be getting any good will, and the petty anarchist in me will take advantage of any situations that come up to do ill upon them if it has a low personal cost.
I'm afraid you are missing my point completely. Because they found a way to make money off of open source, us neckbeards have been able to continue using open source for the rest of our careers, and it just keeps getting better and better! And we don't have to hide in the basement of the skunk works anymore! And we have literally hundreds of Linux distros to chose from now! It's totally fine if you don't like RHEL at all, it really isn't for you. But the money it makes off of the suits totally benefits us neckbeards, because open source is awesome like that!
Please consider rereading what you wrote. You seem to have a lot of anger which is unhealthy but also adds nothing to the conversation. I’m sure you’d appreciate that invective does nothing to improve the signal to noise.
Publicly stating you will “do ill upon” a multinational corporation sounds a lot like a threat, and we don’t do that here.
The Redhat that this last week has been on an anti-neckbeard crusade saying 'we aren't the distro for your type' to those of us who got them in the market is what is disappointing. It's like you help your friend become part of your larger friends group and then they ghost you when they don't need you anymore and are 'too cool' for you. So yeah, fuck off Redhat. They can do whatever they want, but they won't be getting any good will, and the petty anarchist in me will take advantage of any situations that come up to do ill upon them if it has a low personal cost.