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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by freedomben on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:38PM (#36437598)
At the (current) top levels, you might be right. I don't think it's been going on longer than 10 years though. I'd guess maybe 5 or 6.

The bulk of engineering doesn't like this, but sadly for a while now it's been a sales-driven company, and the IBM influence has certainly not helped. Sales doesn't give a shit about the health of Linux, or even the long-term health of Red Hat. They want their commission and promotion, and pesky open-source ideological things get in the way.

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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by TheRealDunkirk on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:44PM (#36437692)
How about since July 9th, 2019?
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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by hosteur on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:52PM (#36439582)
What happened then?
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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by TheRealDunkirk on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:38AM (#36446028)
That's when IBM bought RedHat.
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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by mrighele on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:26PM (#36438425)
I would say at least since udev was merged into systemd and gnome adding an hard dependecy on systemd-logind [2], both in 2012 so I would say more than 10 years.

To me that this was an act to force a Redhat-led project through other Redhat-led projects.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/490413/ [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/commi...

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