An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.

  • SK4nda1@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I agree that they should be allowed a profit. However calling it open source when redistributing rhel code causes them to hold the right of canceling you access to the code and binary, eventhough gpl states that redistributing is a right under gpl rubs me the wrong way.

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      1 year ago

      But they’re not canceling access to the code. All that is still there under CentOS Stream.

      • MrPenguinSky@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not really, CentOS Stream tracks ahead of RHEL and isn’t bug for bug compatible, which is also something that Rocky and Alma wants and needs to be.

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          So they want to slap the Rocky and Alma branding on RHEL (or more importantly Oracle Linux) “Lemme copy your homework but don’t forget to change it a bit” style and get free RHEL with different branding and without contributing upstream?