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Haven’t IBM already made enough bad decisions on behalf of Red Hat for this year?
That's what I thought, too, but unfortunately I feel somehow there's more to come.
So I’ve heard they’ve been making some controversial decisions as of late but I’m out of the loop. What happened?
I believe first they killed the versions of CentOS that matched up with versions of RHEL, leaving only CentOS Stream, then they killed the git repositories that hosted the source for any of the CentOS packages, which were in use by downstream distros. When people got upset they called those downstream distros "freeloaders", esseentially