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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#RedHat’s commitment to #opensource: A response to the git.centos.org changes

Source: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere. This is a real threat to open source, and one that has the potential to revert open source back into a hobbyist- and hackers-only activity.

I guess the greed for profit in #capitalism makes them blind to understand the simplest things about open source. This is one reason why a part of the community prefers to call itself #FLOSS.

#software #freedom #money #economy #linux #problem #news

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code no longer available to the public: This effects various downstream distros based on it

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Red Hat has decided to stop making the source code of RHEL available to the public. From now on it will only be available to customers — who can’t legally share it. This is very bad news for downstream projects which rebuild the RHEL source code to produce compatible distributions, such as AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, EuroLinux, and Oracle Unbreakable Linux.

The core difference is that CentOS Stream is upstream of RHEL: it’s what will become the next point release of RHEL. It’s a sort of continuous rolling beta of the next version of RHEL. Alma, Rocky, and so on, and the former CentOS Linux, were downstream of RHEL: they were rebuilds from the same source code, guaranteeing perfect compatibility (and stability).

Red Hat is still “complying” legally with the GPL in that they do provide the source code to their customers, but that code may not be shared further by anyone else.

It does sound like there may be also a sort of workaround for the downstream distros, but it’s not ideal. So we’re going to have to see how they respond with their plans going forward.

Red Hat was acquired by IBM in 2019, and apart from this move, there have also been some layoffs made at Red Hat (as with many other global companies).

See https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/
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