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.
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?
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?