the right sentence is IBM ....

I don't agree that red hat will impact linux by reducing its contributions. The 2 biggest contributions to red hat are pulseaudio and systemd. It's the exact opposite of what linux should be: small and simple, so that people can compile and modify it. Without having to rebuild an entire world because everything is so complicated. The kernel is a big piece, which is understandable, but sound management is not.

ALSA is technical and complex, but it's powerful. It would have been smarter to make "scripts" to do what you want, and to make an exhaustive documentation, rather than making this big pulsaudio thing.ALL alsa can be driven with text files, why bother with pulsaudio binary ? Because it's so big that it's complicated to contribute and only a big company can do it, and since developers tie themselves to puseaudio, it forces people to use it, like the pre-installation of windows on the majority of new computers. The same goes for systemD, which has swallowed up many simple system functions: sysinit then dbus then .....

What a coincidence that ibm bought red hat after lennard had pushed systemD and puseaudio into the big distributions and now lennard loves linux and free software so much that he's working at microsoft. De icaza tried to worm his way into the system with C# and mono, but he screwed up. he's working at microsoft too.

What red hat is doing is an opportunity to get pulsaudio and systemd out of the major distributions (debian, arch, gento...). I think the slap in the face this would send out would be more powerful than all the nagging.)

exact, you do not need it but is not that simple to avoid it.

my opinion is the "red hat move" could be an opportunity to kick that shit out of linux and let them to red hat. If we never send messages we'll be eaten one day or another. let push red hat out of linux community my wish

linux do not needs red hat, but red hat needs linux.

the equation is thus really simple to solve

we'll see