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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd - linux - kbin.social

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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

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kippinitreal

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Can you explain why "community system" is bad? Genuinely curious, since the word community sounds like it's not controlled by corpo interests

themarty27

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Community systems are not bad, that's most of Linux, but there needs to be an ethical, FOSS-friendly enterprise system to get corpos invested in Linux and FOSS. Besides, corporate systems usually have massive dev teams and upstream/open-source a lot of their work. As much as I shit on Canonical and Red Hat, they've done immense amounts of beneficial work for Linux and FOSS.

kippinitreal

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That makes sense, thank you. My question above was specifically about Debian, since I've heard the point of it being community based used negatively in other places/threads too.

theshatterstone54

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I didn't mean it in a negative light. The issue is that companies prefer to trust other companies, which is why it's good to have a moral company to point to.

woelkchen

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My question above was specifically about Debian, since I’ve heard the point of it being community based used negatively in other places/threads too.

Fun fact: For a few years HP was very invested in Debian because they saw that as the most likely successor to their old HP-UX Unix on mainframe servers.

theshatterstone54

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Basically yes. Beautifully and accurately explained.

MyNameIsRichard

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It's not bad but companies like someone to talk to/blame when something goes wrong.