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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All these corporations looking to kill off their own relevance. They all in the same death cult or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's called enshittification - Cory Doctorow invented the term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They all in the same death cult or something?

Yeah, capitalism it seems like.

I guess asking for sustainable business practices is too much to ask for from the system. "Sufficient" money is never good enough. Gotta try to get all the money, even if it means burning down everything one holds dear.

Hell, the system is literally willing to burn down the whole world in pursuit of more. The more you think about it, the more senseless it all becomes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never forget, in a capitalist system, every firm will always eventually try to get as many people as possible, to pay as much as possible, for as little as possible.

Enshitification

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope that backfire on IBM.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it will but so slowly and further down the road, nobody at IBM will see the connection. When Fedora (or desktop Linux in general) will be slightly less appealing to people who in 10 years will become the decision makers at IT departments, it'll weaken the position of Linux and in turn the commercial support providers.

Guess, everyone who does not yet own a Steam Deck needs to get one because Valve seems to be the biggest commercial proponent of consumer GNU/Linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With redhat withdrawing from FOSS and Ubuntu making a sour flavor of Debian... I think it will either be debian or SUSE.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I've seen that about Ubuntu a few times. Can someone provide me with a TLDR or a good summary article of what's happened to them? Also is it their server stuff too or just desktop? (I use Ubuntu on my home server and have for years)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you get when you merge a company with IBM?

IBM.