"Ajar source" is definitely the funniest take I've seen on this. Kudos, Bryan.

> In other news, Richard Stallman's head has exploded.

I'm honestly not sure about this one. If I'm recalling Stallman's takes correctly, I think he's fine with "Ajar source" as long as the source is open to Red Hat's customers. I remember him saying something along those lines when explaining how he expects developers to make a living-- something along the lines of it being okay to charge money for your product, but then your customer should have [some list of freedoms].

Maybe the telemetry does it though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fact.

But Ubuntu are if anything worse in their own ways.

So if there is any RH to Ubuntu traffic, I don't expect it to stay.

Anyone considering Ubuntu should probably just use Debian. Not that Debian is the ultimate answer to all needs, just that "if you were considering Ubuntu".

But really I don't know what to suggest these days. Alma & Rocky have a strategy for the moment but who knows if RH will figure out a way to break that at any minute.

That leaves what? Arch? Nix? Gentoo? no. Maybe just everyone makes their own based on Alpine or something.

I mean at work not your desktop.

Why are people still referring to "Red Hat" instead of IBM? Back when that sale was announced the talk was that Red Hat's culture wouldn't change, they'd be operating independently from IBM, so it made sense to still speak of Red Hat. Well there has evidently been a dramatic shift in Red Hat's culture; do people still believe this "independent subsidiary" stuff?

Canonical cannot do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666920

That's what it's come to? I have been using Ubuntu for about 15 years, but with snaps still starting up as slowly as they do in finally switching once support for 22.04 runs out.

I believe the author is providing an amusing viewpoint in this post rather than a serious one. After all, the final sentence is: In other news, Richard Stallman's head has exploded.