Potentially this means that Fedora and CentOS stream do not get timely updates implemented in RHEL.
Canonical must be throwing a party, and I bet SUSE is not hating it either
Potentially this means that Fedora and CentOS stream do not get timely updates implemented in RHEL.
Canonical must be throwing a party, and I bet SUSE is not hating it either
Is this the beginning of yet another corporate enshitifcation? Or are we already further in the process? I haven’t been paying that much attention to Red Hat.
I hadn’t actually thought of this as enshitification, but upon reflection… yeah, it truly is! Red Hat allowed the existence of downstream distros, and even made one of their own in CentOS, because they understood how supporting FOSS dev/test on their enterprise product ultimately increased the overall value of that product to their paying customers. Now that IBM has bought Red Hat they don’t care about any of that, they just want to squeeze as hard as possible to maximize the return on their investment. I’d say enshitification started in earnest when they killed CentOS six months ago, so the current announcement is the second phase of enshitification.
That sucks. I didn’t know they had already killed CentOS, but knowing IBM owns them makes this less of a surprise, last I checked, IBM has been struggling financially.
I wonder how this change will affect distros like Fedora.