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I'm newish to Fedora and admit I don't understand the whole developer/governance structure of it vs RHEL, but the news did make me wonder about continuing to use Fedora.
Reading some comments here, maybe it's a non-issue. Guess I'll have to dig more.
It's a complete non-issue. Sensationalist headlines are so easy to make about this.
Anybody who has a FREE developer account can access the source code.
Thanks for more information.
Fellow Fedora user here. I find this is a little concerning, but overall, I'm not too worried. Fedora is their test bed for stuff, although it is a very stable, well maintained test bed.
Fedora is RedHat initiated / donated, and community owned and operated. RedHat has always used free work from Fedora to put together their downstream RedHat builds, much as Canonical uses Debian testing for Ubuntu LTS. Fedora isn't changing, just one of the downstream users of their source code. I do think it is indeed a good idea to keep an eye on things and make your decision based on how project governance goes, but too many parties are doing this kind of stuff with Linux upstream Linux distroes all the time to worry about it IMO. If you ask me, if you wanted to prevent a big cloud company from profiting from your free testing, the time to bail from Fedora was when Amazon introduce Amazon Linux in 2011. They've been making money off your free work for over a decade, and more than RedHat likely ever will, to boot.