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Something I just learned recently after I started working for Red Hat and is the tldr; of the article: "Red Hat also commits to keeping our commercial products

Something I just learned recently after I started working for Red Hat and is the tldr; of the article: "Red Hat also commits to keeping our commercial products 100% pure open source. Even when we acquire a proprietary software company, we commit to releasing all of its code as open source." I had no idea this was the case, pretty cool!

uggedal 10y ago
Where is the source of Ansible Tower?
- maxamillion 10y ago
  I heard at AnsibleFest is that it's undergoing legal review and export compliance, no official timeline yet though.
  - smarterclayton 10y ago
    Export compliance is a huge PITA for red hat. Most open source projects and libraries are not very well set up to meet requirements from the US gov. It sucks down a ton of time, making sure everything is above board.
- ElijahLynn 10y ago
  Not out yet, but you can go to https://www.ansible.com/open-tower https://www.ansible.com/open-tower for updates. The cool thing is that even though it isn't out yet, it will be, because that is the Red Hat way.
crizzooo 10y ago
Can you elaborate on this for a Linux noob? I spent an entire weekend setting up Ubuntu, and then wss extremely jaded when I could barely get anything to work, and even getting Flash in the browser was a huge pain in the ass. So I only use my windows side partition now, and its just easier.... Still mostly do everything on my Mac anyway
- ufo 10y ago
  > even getting Flash in the browser was a huge pain in the ass One thing that you have to remember is that what is easy and hard in Linux is different than what is easy and hard in Windows and MacOS. Flash is one example. Since it is not Free and Open Source Software, the Linux distributions cannot redistribute it to you without risking being sued by Adobe. So if you want Flash you will need to jump some hoops. On the other hand, if the software you want is in your distro's package repository then the installation experience blows Windows and MacOS out of the water.
cyphar 10y ago
I work for SUSE and we have a very similar view on making all of our products free software. Everything I've ever written or done for SUSE is free software and I contribute it to openSUSE before it goes into our enterprise distribution (we are a member of the openSUSE community and we very strongly believe that our contributions should go to the community before they go to our enterprise distros).

uggedal 10y ago

Where is the source of Ansible Tower?

maxamillion 10y ago
I heard at AnsibleFest is that it's undergoing legal review and export compliance, no official timeline yet though.
- smarterclayton 10y ago
  Export compliance is a huge PITA for red hat. Most open source projects and libraries are not very well set up to meet requirements from the US gov. It sucks down a ton of time, making sure everything is above board.
ElijahLynn 10y ago
Not out yet, but you can go to https://www.ansible.com/open-tower https://www.ansible.com/open-tower for updates. The cool thing is that even though it isn't out yet, it will be, because that is the Red Hat way.

crizzooo 10y ago

Can you elaborate on this for a Linux noob? I spent an entire weekend setting up Ubuntu, and then wss extremely jaded when I could barely get anything to work, and even getting Flash in the browser was a huge pain in the ass. So I only use my windows side partition now, and its just easier.... Still mostly do everything on my Mac anyway

ufo 10y ago
> even getting Flash in the browser was a huge pain in the ass One thing that you have to remember is that what is easy and hard in Linux is different than what is easy and hard in Windows and MacOS. Flash is one example. Since it is not Free and Open Source Software, the Linux distributions cannot redistribute it to you without risking being sued by Adobe. So if you want Flash you will need to jump some hoops. On the other hand, if the software you want is in your distro's package repository then the installation experience blows Windows and MacOS out of the water.

cyphar 10y ago

I work for SUSE and we have a very similar view on making all of our products free software. Everything I've ever written or done for SUSE is free software and I contribute it to openSUSE before it goes into our enterprise distribution (we are a member of the openSUSE community and we very strongly believe that our contributions should go to the community before they go to our enterprise distros).