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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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.
We’re (US) is in a growth cycle. This is a common thing – the companies need to try to keep up with growth/markets, so squeeze people for more money. Reddit is doing it – trying to IPO. Red Hat is doing it with this, though for me they’ve never been compelling or useful – I’m shocked they’ve hung on this long. Their products in my (very limited) experience are mediocre.
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.
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.
A while ago someone shared this on [email protected], and it feels relevant to bring it up again.
well that’s a bit of a dick move
On the plus side it’s not as if Red Hat are in charge of the all of the core system plumbing for all the major distros…oh, shit wait a minute.
I feel bad for fedora guys.
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