Alright, at first I was like okay red hat wants to make money to keep IBM happy. Now I just realize it’s not read hat anymore. Fuck that I’m moving to suse
Nobody has a problem with Red Hat keeping the lights on and people paid. IBM just wants to increase profit margins because capitalism is a flawed system about abusing whatever you can for personal gain.
Nobody has a problem with Red Hat keeping the lights on and people paid
Red Hat was doing way more than that. They generate a revenue of about 1.5 billion dollars per year, and a net income of half a billion.
IBM just wants to increase profit margins because capitalism is a flawed system about abusing whatever you can for personal gain.
Yep, that’s the capitalist logic: every drop of blood that you haven’t squeezed out of people but that you could have, is a loss. Taking ethics and the greater good into consideration is for losers.
Just the good old stock market gently asking for infinite growth. You can´t just be profitable these days, shareholders prefer to kill a profitable business that does not grow constantly.
Alright, at first I was like okay red hat wants to make money to keep IBM happy. Now I just realize it’s not read hat anymore. Fuck that I’m moving to suse
Nobody was ever not ok with Red Hat making money. What we’re not ok with is Red Hat trying to make even more money at the expense of software freedom.
Nobody has a problem with Red Hat keeping the lights on and people paid. IBM just wants to increase profit margins because capitalism is a flawed system about abusing whatever you can for personal gain.
Red Hat was doing way more than that. They generate a revenue of about 1.5 billion dollars per year, and a net income of half a billion.
Yep, that’s the capitalist logic: every drop of blood that you haven’t squeezed out of people but that you could have, is a loss. Taking ethics and the greater good into consideration is for losers.
Not bringing anything of value to the discussion but just want to say - fuck 'em.
Just the good old stock market gently asking for infinite growth. You can´t just be profitable these days, shareholders prefer to kill a profitable business that does not grow constantly.
Yeah, literally a cancer.
Red Hat literally became the first ever billionaire FOSS company (iirc), their pre-selling out business model was working perfectly fine.