Never mind that he publicly said that the company has never been profitable.
That is always going to the biggest issue, it doesn’t matter how happy, or unhappy, they make the users, the current business strategy just isn’t profitable.
The platforms cost billions to run, and they are run by companies that are expected to have yearly growth.
You can blame the companies for being greed, but the users are equally naive if they think the money is just going to materialize out of thin air.
Free to use with no ads just isn’t going to work, someone is going to need to cover the server cost.
What speed and bandwidth are you getting for $2.50?
It only affects RHEL, you can still use Fedora if you want to use Red Hat.
I have never seen RHEL as a “community” distribution, I have always seen it as a business to business product.
The way many companies see it, there is nothing stopping the 8 billion programmers from forking the code and make an identical and free product.
I use LanguageTool, their privacy policy seems okay.
They have paid and free option, and it can be self-hosted, but as fare as understand the self-hosted options doesn’t have any of the software enhancements you get on their servers.
Doesn’t mean they can’t try, and restrict your personal freedom in the process. If people are using VPN to commit a crime, the solution is to try and ban the use of VPN.