Perl. Its installed everywhere I need to run it and stuff I wrote over 20 years ago is still doing exactly what it should.
Might be worth waiting for some news outlets you've actually heard of to start carrying the story before you break out the balloons.
This feels like a cynical ploy for funding, like almost every "miracle battery" story carried over the past ten years.
Name the decade without naming the decade.
That's a surprisingly well written article.
Agree on point of detail, but the "drama" is the reason for the fuss. Redhat's communication, especially to the community that helped build and support it, has always been patchy, but over the past few years it's been apalling. As others have pointed out, they've insulted a lot of us, specifically for not contributing upstream - so it's not unexpected for them to be called on it when someone does.
I think the EL sphere as a whole (including RHEL and all up and downstreams) is getting drastically weakened directly because of Redhat's poor decision making, and that's a shame for all of us.
Same has happened in recent versions of Gitlab. Lots of feature creep and UI changes that seem non-intuitive (at least for me)
Excellent summary and conclusions.
Me too, but I couldn't eat a whole one.
Yes. And there's literally nobody calling for it other than a tiny number of Parenting and Religious pressure groups. Massive waste of government time and our money.
It's hard to get noticed on Reddit (unless you make a typo!)
Unless you're the first to post on a new topic that goes on to be popular, then no matter what you say you get read and gain karma. If you comment on something a few hours old, nobody ever reads it.
You're one voice in a city. Whereas here, we're a village. Less anonymous, friendlier, easier to get talking to your neighbour.
Accusation that the Rebuilders provide nothing back to the community.
Actually, what Redhat are saying about rebuilders is that they "don't add value" - and that's for Redhat, NOT to the community which they patently do. That's quite a badly twisted misquote there, friend.
Also, Redhat didn't create open source software. They're a big player, sure, but I remember writing and releasing my code back in the 80s and 90s when it was called Freeware and Public Domain and distributed on cassette tape.
Have you checked syslog and apts logs?
Also, simply uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox shouldn't lose all your settings. Silly question, but are you sure you're the same local user? Also, Firefox syncs this stuff so all sounds odd.