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What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

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[–] jack@monero.town 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I have no problem with the telemetry, it's anonymized and open source. It could help Fedora. Totally different from spooky proprietary telemetry

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Also you have the ability to disable it right in the installer/welcome screen, before anything is being sent. Imo having good telemetry is important, and this is how it should be done!

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

People just see the word telemetry and get frightened without looking into it in any detail.