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I've been seeing stuff about this but I don't quite understand, what does this mean for Fedora? Do I need to switch too?
To elaborate further on what Vani said below, Fedora is an independent community run project but Red Hat does provide some funding to the project. Fedora is also "upstream" of RHEL / CentOS so it is not impacted like Alma / Rocky.
Those distos are for professional use cases mostly. Fedora is fine and there is no need to worry.
Thanks for the heads up, I was worried for a second especially with the recent FedoraFiasco.
The most likely problem that may occur with Fedora because of RHEL's change is that some developers may just stop building RPM packages entirely. Whether it's a big enough issue to worry about, only time will tell