Am 2018-10-30 08:06, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.:
Yeah.....I guess that's one way to look at it.
My biggest worry? Is I've placed so much time and effort "getting to know" Fedora and its intricacies, idiosyncrasies, its ins and outs...dealt with ridicule on this very same list when I first started, have "cut my teeth" on learning VERY hard lessons about certain syntax in the Terminal and what NOT to type.......only to have that all "taken" away from me at the whim of IBM. It just seems unfair. I'm hoping like H3LL that the developers @ Fedora are seriously thinking about forking "Just In Case"!? I mean they could still use the .RPM extensions, and possibly even still pull their code from RHEL, but at least they would be autonomous and wouldn't have to rely on IBM's good will in order to keep on churning out what....to me...is the best Linux distro on the planet! As I write this....I'm eyeballing the spare ThinkPad T-410 that I've neglected since I have Fedora running on a Dell XPS, and I'm thinking its time to get "back to my roots" and to find a distro I can put on that device and run without concern....I've heard some decent things about this "Pop-OS" which comes with System76's hardware. Maybe I'll give that a spin......then like I had said before...there's always Debian plain vanilla...with maybe MATE or Cinnamon?.....or else its going to have to be where I buckle down and finally learn all there is to know about LFS and Arch Linux and then move on to one of those...(God!.....at 47!?....its like how can I POSSIBLY start over again!?...) and THIS is the kind of turmoil that ensues when a corporation buys a fully functioning open course company!
I think you seriously underestimate the amount of influence and sheer man-power RedHat brings to Linux - and IBM, too.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2017/10/2017-linux-kernel-report-highli...
There's a reason RHEL is an enterprise-distribution - and Debian et.al. aren't (and never will, outside their niches).
RedHat writes ton of code that is needed for Linux to be truly "Enterprise" and that exists nowhere else. The above statistics is only the kernel - but Enterprise Linux is so much more than a kernel. That code isn't going to write itself, nor is somebody else going to pick up unless someone will pay the bill. Maybe somebody can fork all the code and maintain it for a while - but to stay relevant, there must be further development, a roadmap ...
Sure, there's Google and a couple of other companies - but they really only write for themselves and as much as people try cargo-culting them, most companies aren't Google and their use-case hardly matches anyone else's.
I still remember when SAP announced that their engineers had ported their ERP to Linux - a sparetime-project at the beginning - and they were making it a tier 1 platform. That was over 20 years ago.
Linux has come a long way.