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Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora Into Microsoft Windows, Time to Adopt Real Community Distros

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Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz
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IBM, with its notorious army of aggressive lawyers and mountains of software patents, is trying to make RHEL proprietary and render Fedora ‘spyware’ (they know it’ll put off existing and potential users; later they can claim “reduced demand” for it and mothball the whole thing, rebranding it as “CentOS” after they had already fired Fedora management and then abandoned OpenSource.com and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice); Canonical keeps up with evil by doing some of its own and they don't compete with Microsoft, so we can trust neither of them

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