Nu Red Hat de meest dominante speler is geworden in de markt voor Open Source Software beginnen de eerste (voorspelbare) problemen. Pessimisten zeggen zelfs dat Red Hat zich zal ontwikkelen als een tweede M$ dat alle ontwikkeling zal proberen te smoren en de markt wil beheersen. Een quote van het artikel op ZDnet:
Most controversial, perhaps is the company's decision to kick-start a Red Hat-specific Linux training and certification program, while community-developed efforts are growing in the hopper. Further flustering the hornet's nest is Red Hat's unenthousiastic reception of Linux standards, including a Linux Standard Base (LSB) project to keep various open source flavors from diverging. The LSB project [...] is an industry-wide push to decide what basic components should go into every linux distribution, including programming libraries and user interface specs. By agreeing on a common package developers could theoretically perform one port to make their product available on all linux flavours.
