Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? | Jeff Geerling
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Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.

  • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Opensource licenses typically doesn’t require the software to be free, just that the source and modification be made available to users.

    Making user pay to access both binaries and source is fair, as long as RedHat keep contributing code to upstream projects.

  • Leigh@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What is it lately with companies and shooting themselves in the foot? Have all the CEOs gotten together and mutually decided that this was the year they were going to piss off their communities?

    Red Hat are burning through a lot of the good will they’ve made over the years with this.

    Here’s the statement the Rocky Linux folks put out:

    https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/

    Good luck, brothers. I wish you well.