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Huge Open Source Drama



Huge Open Source Drama

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 in this video:

– Red Hat’s blog post announcing the change: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
– Deprecation of RHEL support: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/removing-official-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux
– Software Freedom Conservancy blog post: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/
– Red Hat Linux (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FztGWaP8v2Q
– The Red Hat Story (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFyxe_tCxto

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