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And, just as Fedora's mind share was really starting to take off, specifically with the HN crowd, IBM goes and buys the company.

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Indeed. I think the handling of Fedora (and/or maybe even CentOS?) will be the main indicator of where IBM is heading with the Red Hat acquisition. Personally, I hope their actions are quick if they do anything negative. I use Fedora and CentOS a good amount and would like to know sooner, rather than later, if I should move to a different distro.

Fedora has been around a long time, so I'm not sure why you think it added mind share. Ubuntu and Arch laser focused on certain audiences and Fedora really couldn't find a home between the two.

Fedora is a proving ground for new features in RHEL usually.

It's a proving ground for new features in Linux in general. systemd, unified /usr and /bin, ip vs. ifconfig were all things that Fedora was quick to apply, consequences be damned, in the name of staying cutting edge.

It's annoying as all hell sometimes but if you use Fedora you're already used to things that suddenly land in other distributions and cause strife.

Now if only they could switch to ufw from firewalld...

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