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by jzb 3y ago
Totally reasonable reaction. I'm not on the anti-Red Hat bus, I feel like they have every right to walk the path they're walking right now. I don't think Red Hat gets enough credit for its work carrying wood and chopping wate
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by jzb 3y ago
SUSE is tenacious AF, you have to give 'em that. This could be an opportunity for them to grab some market share. I'd love to see it. I don't wish ill on Red Hat, either, but I'd love to see SUSE grow and be a stronger
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by jzb 3y ago
"Although without legal teeth, in practice wouldn't this become very challenging to keep enforced?" Well, enforcement is entirely another matter. It might turn into a nightmare of whack-a-mole for Red Hat, I have no idea. I&#
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by jzb 3y ago
Obviously IBM owns Red Hat now and all that. But people overestimate how much involvement IBM has day-to-day with Red Hat. (Source: I'm a former Red Hatter, left last year.) At worst I'd imagine that IBM's influence is felt t
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by jzb 3y ago
"Please, dear Red Hat, just give me a DigitalOcean VM (or something comparable) that costs a few dollars more and has automatic RHEL licensing." This is a two-way street. It's not all on Red Hat. I don't know to what ext
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by jzb 3y ago
"Systemd, Gnome, and Wayland are key plays here" GNOME and Wayland are utterly non-strategic for most of Red Hat's business. If your theory of Red Hat's long-term strategy hinges on those being strategic, then you need t
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by jzb 3y ago
A few years ago the figure was "several hundred" but the exact number is fluid because some people (like Matthew) are paid to work on Fedora full time, while others work on Fedora as part of their job but not their whole job. It&#
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by jzb 3y ago
Go for it. I hope lots of people switch to Debian and help support its development. If RHEL isn't compelling enough to pay for, then Debian is great and available for free and that community isn't trying to make a profit. So IMO e
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by jzb 3y ago
Because you still have the rights. You just aren't in a position to get future source code / binaries. Think of it this way: The GPL doesn't obligate Red Hat to accept all customers in the first place, right? If you stop pa
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by jzb 3y ago
But they're not. Let's say you download RHEL 10.0 someday. You download RHEL 10.0 source code. Some of which is GPL'ed. You rebuild and call it Acme Linux 10.0. Red Hat says "bye, enjoy distributing that, no more RHEL fo
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Impact of RHEL Changes to AlmaLinux(almalinux.org)
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by jzb 3y ago
And those companies should be just fine with Stream or some other option, right?
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by jzb 3y ago
"it seems really slimy to build RHEL on the work of who knows how many people that publish it for free and then to put road blocks around their derivative" I'm always curious that people get angry at Red Hat profiting on the
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes, they could. But they (often) don't. The certification / training ecosystem that exists around RHEL has a lot value, even if a lot of folks like to handwave it away. The engineering that goes into RHEL and the very predictable
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by jzb 3y ago
"I find it hard to believe RHEL will get away with this. I hope the Linux Foundation weighs in" I'm curious what role you think the LF plays here, or what they'd do to prevent Red Hat from "getting away" with d
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by jzb 3y ago
Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat and many of its developers are employed by Red Hat. Much of the work in Fedora is done by Red Hat. Red Hat did not fire the FPL. They laid off the Fedora Program Manager, which is a different role entirely. I
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by jzb 3y ago
CentOS was also huge towards allowing a lot of larger companies to just run CentOS in production instead of RHEL and avoid paying anything at all. However you may feel about Red Hat's actions, I'd trust that folks at Red Hat have
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by jzb 3y ago
I'm not going to call Rocky or Alma "dirtbags" (does anybody use that phrase these days?) but comparing what Red Hat does to Rocky is misleading. RHEL Clones: Take finished source code, rebuild, test, release. RHEL: Work upst
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by jzb 3y ago
"So most times the alternative wouldn't be a fully open source project, but probably a nonexistent one." That may be true. Or it may stall development of a truly open project, if the open core is widely adopted and people acc
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by jzb 3y ago
In general, I think it gets actively worse - there may well be exceptions. And I'm less concerned about open core built on things like Apache projects where open source project is not controlled by a single vendor (or shouldn't be
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by jzb 3y ago
Oh, cool. Will check this out! Thanks!
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by jzb 3y ago
I love the idea of an Airtable/Notion open source alternative, but I haven't seen any projects yet that look like a solid long-term bet. NocoDB is neat, but looks like it's a single vendor-driven project that could go open co
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by jzb 3y ago
Is what you want a walled garden or just the iOS garden that happens to be walled? Android allows side loading, etc., but in practice it’s a walled garden too. Just slightly shorter walls and more lax caretakers. I prefer iOS to Android mys
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by jzb 3y ago
"Are there a lot of issues with non-competes?" What would constitute "a lot"? The last few years I've seen an increase in the tech industry of non-competes being required for less senior roles, plus reports of using
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by jzb 3y ago
"It's been demonstrated over and over and over again." Well, yes. But it's also been demonstrated over and over again the risks of centralized sites. Maybe, just maybe, one of these days that lesson will stick and commun
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by jzb 3y ago
I certainly wonder about the "do something else" in the sense of serial entrepreneurs. If I could cash in once I'd be done. If I had enough money to retire on, I would. Run a cat shelter or something. But the actual answer he
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by jzb 3y ago
I see the goalposts have moved again, now we're on "reliably get the same configuration...." The conversation is about Red Hat not packaging LibreOffice for RHEL. The options in scope here are RPM or Flatpak. Nix isn't e
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by jzb 3y ago
I have zero doubt that Red Hat has consulted the users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that matter, and that this will impact. The commentary of users on LWN and HN may be interesting, but not likely to be representative of those paying for RHE
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by jzb 3y ago
I really don’t see how this comment is relevant to the conversation at hand. None of this is about sandboxing libreoffice. It’s simply about a delivery method of getting a libreoffice on a system. Nix is absolutely 1000% not a mainstream so
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by jzb 3y ago
“How often does Canonical need to fail with Mir, Unity, Upstart and now Snap?” Until it gets different leadership. The drive to try to keep creating moats around Ubuntu that only benefit Canonical comes from the top.

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