Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.
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Opensource licenses typically doesn’t require the software to be free, just that the source and modification be made available to users.
Making user pay to access both binaries and source is fair, as long as RedHat keep contributing code to upstream projects.
What is it lately with companies and shooting themselves in the foot? Have all the CEOs gotten together and mutually decided that this was the year they were going to piss off their communities?
Red Hat are burning through a lot of the good will they’ve made over the years with this.
Here’s the statement the Rocky Linux folks put out:
https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/
Good luck, brothers. I wish you well.
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You aren’t Red Hat’s target customer. Their target is a large corporation that not only wants to pay for official support, but often needs to thanks to regulations or the like.
A while ago someone shared this on !programming@beehaw.org, and it feels relevant to bring it up again.
well that’s a bit of a dick move
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Updated, had a typo.