ieatpillowtags
joined 2 years ago
I think they’ve been financially pressured to do these kinds of things since they went public, aka since the beginning.
Shareholders demand infinite growth, and at a certain point the suits look at something like CentOS and think “we’re paying to help people not need a RHEL sub”.
It doesn’t matter though because Red Hat is an independent subsidiary. They make their own decisions, good or bad.
It brings fear, it’s terrorism plain and simple. The goal is to demoralize the enemy population in general, not to gain any tactical advantage.