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Alright, at first I was like okay red hat wants to make money to keep IBM happy. Now I just realize it's not red hat anymore. Fuck that I'm moving to suse
Nobody has a problem with Red Hat keeping the lights on and people paid. IBM just wants to increase profit margins because capitalism is a flawed system about abusing whatever you can for personal gain.
Not bringing anything of value to the discussion but just want to say - fuck 'em.
Just the good old stock market gently asking for infinite growth. You can´t just be profitable these days, shareholders prefer to kill a profitable business that does not grow constantly.
Yeah, literally a cancer.
Red Hat literally became the first ever billionaire FOSS company (iirc), their pre-selling out business model was working perfectly fine.