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@beta_tester @alounoz No, Fedora is independent and all Gnome is affected by this. It is very sad that RH is not interested in the Linux Desktop and I doubt that Canonical will assign resources to these projects.
"independent" - Is it though?
Redhat are the major sponsors of Fedora, much as they sponsored Centos before taking it over and killing it in classic "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
I have doubts about the future of the entire EL ecosphere - I know not many enterprise level organisations are investing deeply into it right now, whether that's with RHEL or a rebuild. Too much doubt about Redhat's intentions with RHEL and the future of it.
Hard to “embrace” something you created. Fedora is 100% a Red Hat creation. They created Fedora when they created RHEL. Before that, it was just Red Hat Linux.
Fedora users are just "beta testers" for Red Hat's main distro, RHEL, and it really did feel like it. I started on Fedora and moved on swiftly after finding better distros.
It is dependent in many ways but they can and do make independent decisions.
Independent then why did the RH lawyers make them remove the codecs from the distro earlier this year.
Because Red Hat is a distributor and sponsor of Fedora. The Fedora project is made up of around 30% Red Hat employees. This makes them liable if Fedora starts shipping codecs that are in violation of patent law.
OpenSuse also removed the codecs and they aren't affiliated with Red Hat at all.