Red Hat just erected a paywall in front of the source code to their Linux distribution.Are they burning bridges to the wider open source ecosystem?Referenced...
An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.
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.
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?
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.
But they’re not canceling access to the code. All that is still there under CentOS Stream.
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.
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?