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What is the reason for such an angry reply? They're pushing the boundaries and going against the spirit of free software. It's apparently legal but damages open

• gettodachoppa 3y ago
  Because I hate in politics when people repeat a lie enough and it becomes the new reality that everyone will eventually accept, and I don't like seeing this sort of thing infect tech. I see this Red Hat narrative being adopted in real-time on tech forums and IRC. What Red Hat is doing doesn't damage open-source. Open-source is meant to guarantee the end-user (ideally a normal person, not a tech giant, at least for me that's the only person I care about) has the freedom to use/modify the software they paid for. Everyone can still do that. What's gone is the abuse of the GPL for systematic, automated cloning by parasites like Oracle or Cloud Linux Foundation, simply for the purpose of using RHEL without paying for it. If you need RHEL on your systems, use one of the 16 free RHEL licenses they give you. If your app runs in a Docker container, the RHEL images require no license to use. If this isn't enough, switch distros (I hear CentOS Stream is pretty close) or pay for RHEL. I simply don't see legitimate users being affected by this.