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Redhat is evil now?
by jimmaswell 3y ago
Redhat is evil now?
- chucksta 3y agoindirectly yes https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-07-09-IBM-Closes-Landmark-Acquisition-of-Red-Hat-for-34-Billion-Defines-Open-Hybrid-Cloud-Future https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-07-09-IBM-Closes-Landmark-Acqu... more importantly; https://www.servethehome.com/red-hat-goes-full-ibm-and-says-farewell-to-centos/ https://www.servethehome.com/red-hat-goes-full-ibm-and-says-...
- codetrotter 3y agohttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enter...
- thorncorona 3y agoHard to run an open source enterprise company when Amazon's playbook is to take your shit for free and host it themselves.
- azemetre 3y agoWouldn't using an AGPL license be better for this than just GPL?
- insanitybit 3y agoThat would be a hilarious way to lose every customer over night.
- tristan957 3y agoWhy would customers leave you if your product was AGPL?
- insanitybit 3y agoI think it's extremely common for companies to sit every engineer down during onboarding and say "never touch code with these licenses". Certainly in my experience it is.
- tristan957 3y agoMongoDB was AGPL before moving to the SSPL. So this doesn't make sense.
- withinboredom 3y agoBecause people are stupid. Never underestimate stupidity. In all seriousness, it’s just that the AGPL considers network use to be distribution and thus entitled to the source[https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misunderstood-license-86fd1fe91275 https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misu...] This terrifies people for some reason. Basically because they want the freedom to modify open source projects and call it their own without giving back to the project that actually created it.
- insanitybit 3y agoThe stupid people are lawyers and they definitely seem to think they have a good reason.
- Zuiii 3y agoAll stupid people think they are right. Give me one concrete AGPL case that justifies their aversion. Anyway, it's their loss.
- insanitybit 3y agoIs there an AGPL case that can be used to say "there's no risk" ?
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- axus 3y agoRed Hat had over a billion dollars in revenue last year and it's never stopped growing. Free Red Hat-compatible operating systems did not stop them from making a lot of money.
- OCASMv2 3y agoRocky and Alma are the bad actors who caused this.
- nottorp 3y ago... more like dead for all practical purposes ?
- JohnFen 3y agoI've considered Red Hat a bad actor for a number of years now.