Huge Open Source Drama
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Red Hat just erected a paywall in front of the source code to their Linux distribution.Are they burning bridges to the wider open source ecosystem?Referenced...

An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.

  • SK4nda1English
    472·
    1 year ago

    I agree that they should be allowed a profit. However calling it open source when redistributing rhel code causes them to hold the right of canceling you access to the code and binary, eventhough gpl states that redistributing is a right under gpl rubs me the wrong way.

      • MrPenguinSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        Not really, CentOS Stream tracks ahead of RHEL and isn’t bug for bug compatible, which is also something that Rocky and Alma wants and needs to be.

        • SK4nda1English
          1·
          1 year ago

          Jeah exactly, not all things in rhel get opstreamed or backported. They are trying to monetize rhel by making taking away the spirit of opensource.

          The thing is the people who run centos will not suddenly go for rhel at the prices they charge. Most people will just go for debian or susa