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Exactly, so: fuck them. Everyone is not only completely within their rights, but doing what they are supposed to do. Red Hat is saying "we don't care about peo
by veidr 3y ago
Exactly, so: fuck them. Everyone is not only completely within their rights, but doing what they are supposed to do.
Red Hat is saying "we don't care about people who use a rebadged clone of our OS and pay us" (hard to find fault with that) and open-source users who don't pay for Red Hat are saying "fuck a Linux distro that hides source code" (ditto).
And we'll see who was right, in the sense of actually making a good decision, within a year or two. It might even be "both". (Although I personally suspect that Red Hat effectively removing RHEL (including its not-directly-money-making clones) from contention as a mainstream OS will have worse long-term effects on Red Hat than it will for anybody else... but we'll see.)
- yawaramin 3y agoI have zero problems with people who vote with their feet and walk away from RHEL over RH deciding not to share source code with non-customers. What I do find cynical and hypocritical is people making up all sorts of wild accusations with no basis in reality, like elsewhere in this thread someone accused RH of violating the GPL by suing customers to stop them publishing RHEL source code. That's just one example, the online forums and social media are full of people making up all sorts of stories. The one thing that's clear to me is that people never actually bothered to read the GPL, or didn't actually bother to find out exactly what RH is doing. And they can't be bothered to while they go on their moral crusade. God forbid that facts get in the way.