Red Hat and the Clone Wars: Dissociated Press
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It’s been an exciting week for people who care about Linux distributions, FOSS licensing, FOSS distribution, FOSS business models, and the future of open source in general. Red Hat’s an…
  • Lengsel
    3•1 year ago

    The discussion of Red Hat is overkill for the number of links and discussions.

    For people who do not maintain or are not admin for RHEL clone servers, there seems to be an element of addicted to outrage going on, feigning being upset so they can be part of the trend without providing solutions.

    If IBM is committed to changing to a paid source available model, all of this talk and outrage is moot.

    • @[email protected]OP
      4•1 year ago

      Agreed. Its news for sure, and maybe it speeks to some broader topics (like if the wider linux community wants things what RHEL offers, how would we go about doing that), but this isn’t some Judas kiss to the Linux world.

      I am contributing to the topic though, because people are taking it to an extreme looking at even avoiding Fedora, the community ran distro, that have nothing to do in this decision.

      • Lengsel
        4•1 year ago

        Some people, maybe a lot of people, do not want a solution, they want to follow the trend and feed their fix of being angry for things don’t make the slightest difference in how they live their life outside of online comment sections.

    • millionEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I disagree, Linux people, regardless of the distro they run, generally care about the health of the Linux and larger open source community as a whole.

      This move by Red Hat, which historically been one of the most important and widely used Linux distros, effects the health of the entire open source community.

  • auth
    3•1 year ago

    You crossposted so much that it showed twice in my RSS feed

    In other news, fuck redhat

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      Sorry about you getting a duplicate. I was trying to cross post just to places where I saw incorrectly that RedHat was going closed source.