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   victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 06:11:23 JST victor

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   • Jeff Geerling
   @geerlingguy ...And yet somehow this is only just now a problem (after IBM acquires Red Hat).
   
   Big psychopathic companies being devoured by even bigger, more psychopathic companies. Oh well, it's nothing new. Microsoft was extend-embrace-extinguishing before it was cool.
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     Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 06:11:24 JST Jeff Geerling

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     Red Hat: those who use open source code and don't contribute back are "a real threat to open source companies everywhere"

     I call them: users.

     I fight for the users.

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     Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 06:11:25 JST Jeff Geerling

     Red Hat's response: https://redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

     So... it *was* all about the "freeloaders". Can people stop telling me that this whole thing wasn't about freeloaders now? #redhat #opensource