GlyphI do agree with Red Hat that we ought to ensure that the people who *really* make open source software need to be fairly compensated
It is just *wild* to me that the people who built a business on a linux *distribution* are trying to die on the hill that "people who just take source code and build it aren't adding any value".
Shawn Webb@glyph though, I suspect RH does a bit more than just repackage things. I think it would be worthwhile to look at diffs comparing upstream and downstream and contributions to upstream.
It might also be worthwhile to look at direct and indirect contributions made as a result of RH involvement. How many people unaffiliated with RH sent patches to some random project because of their use of RH? hard to quantify the butterfly effect.
Benjamin@lattera @glyph This may not be common, but at my previous employer, we used RedHat. When I asked why, I was told it was so we had someone to blame/get-support when something goes wrong.
Their role in the ecosystem is to be paid to fix the weird bugs that the free maintainers aren’t interested in fixing.
Dmitry Tantsur