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.
Red Hat probably contributes to Open Source and Linux more than any other company around. Are they perfect? Of course not, and it’s fair and good to discuss and criticise them when warranted. But overall they seem to contribute positively much more than negatively.
How are they “doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.” exactly ?