Open Source community after Red Hat decides to go closed source 😂 #linux#redhat#rhel#opensource By limiting the RHEL public sources to CentOS Stream, it will now be more difficult for community/off-shoot enterprise Linux distributions like Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, etc, to provide 1:1 binary compatible builds against given RHEL releases.
@nixCraft If it didn't go completely against our ethos and it wasn't wildly impractical, I'd love to go on corporate strike for a few months. Downstream work only. All the big open source projects that we maintain, just stop. All the little bits, the tiny but vitally important plumbing that you never think about but can't live without that Red Hat maintains, just stop. All the big fixes and feature enhancements in everything we maintain, just stop.
Every company has its detractors, all you can ask yourself is if you agree with the companies actions and if you are proud of your involvement.
Red Hats support of various things isn't alturisim, businesses do things because its in their interest. Red Hat funds things like systemd, gtk, otk, etc.. because it means they can set the technical direction, it reduces development costs, its part of a montisation plan, etc..
This is why its making its changes, it doesn't think CentOS feeds into RHEL licence purchases and the open source builds were to support RHEL clones.
So Red Hat could just stop supporting all those bits but it should seriously hurt Red Hat (if it doesn't there is a question on why Red Hat is doing it).
