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submitted 1 year ago by Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

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[-] themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

Community systems are not bad, that's most of Linux, but there needs to be an ethical, FOSS-friendly enterprise system to get corpos invested in Linux and FOSS. Besides, corporate systems usually have massive dev teams and upstream/open-source a lot of their work. As much as I shit on Canonical and Red Hat, they've done immense amounts of beneficial work for Linux and FOSS.

[-] kippinitreal@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

That makes sense, thank you. My question above was specifically about Debian, since I've heard the point of it being community based used negatively in other places/threads too.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I didn't mean it in a negative light. The issue is that companies prefer to trust other companies, which is why it's good to have a moral company to point to.

[-] woelkchen@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

My question above was specifically about Debian, since I’ve heard the point of it being community based used negatively in other places/threads too.

Fun fact: For a few years HP was very invested in Debian because they saw that as the most likely successor to their old HP-UX Unix on mainframe servers.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Basically yes. Beautifully and accurately explained.

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