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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 day ago by propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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They were bought by IBM a few years back, but even aside from that they’re a corporation and they care about making money above all else.

It looks like Red Hat is doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t think the incessant Fedora shilling is unrelated.

It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All companies (and people for that matter) are "money above all else." If you don't have income you are in trouble.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Funny how the people desperate to make money above all else in this world project their insecurity on the rest of us and try to gaslight people into thinking that's how everybody works.

Truth is money isn't everything in life.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it comes down to if you can afford basic necessities. If you have your basic needs met money doesn't buy happiness.

My point is that employment is needed to pay the bills. It is the same thing for a company plus some crazy. For large publicly companies they want the stock price to go up no matter what. Expecting Google to have any care about ethics doesn't work as there are shareholders to appease. It is the reason SUSE went private.