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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.

  • Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.liveEnglish
    202·
    1 year ago

    Oracle Linux is 100% the cause of this change.

    Imagine supporting 2 other distros to make your own enterprise linux that is your only source of money through optional subscriptions to it.

    Then some other big unethical corporation (much like your own parent company) comes in, use the GPL license to clone it and slap an “Oracle db certified” sticker on it. Finally, they decide to use the same subscription model as you except they get insane margins since you did 99% of the work for them.

    But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.

    • CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.

      I think this is a good theory. I would be surprised if Red Hat hadn’t realized the value of clones and the community (and contributions) they bring.

      I hope, but also honestly believe, that this is targeted at Oracle and that publicly saying “Don’t worry we’re only gonna use this against this company” would be make Red Hat liable to a lawsuit.

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ok, but lets say IBMHat wins here. If the selling point of OEL is Oracle db certified (which is almost HAS to be, no one else wants to touch Oracle), they are also the people who could just certify for Amazon Linux or Debian Stable based OEL. This doesn’t achieve anything good for IBMHat.

    • JuxtaposedJaguarEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.

      That might (hopefully) be true, but at the same time that level of uncertainty is unsuitable for a distribution. RH couldn’t ever give a formal confirmation, nor could they distribute an internal memo to keep all employees on the same page. So at any moment, your distro could stop receiving updates. The entire repo might even be taken down.