Comment I remember the switch (Score 5, Insightful) 23
I remember the switch from Community driven development to RHEL, they really did abandoned their core community. I switch to Debian and BSD and have never looked back. This event lead to Ubuntu growing up and taking over the desktop mantle for a bit, which has more of the open source ethos than Red Hat.
They eventually brought back the community driven development but by then almost half the developers have left. They really should have just made a second product for the business community, and not dropped the original intent. No one would have cared if they did that. Red Hat really squandered what good will they had in the community.