So Red Hat says they're not going to make the source code for #RHEL publicly available anymore. Should be interesting to see how this plays out...
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
Meeting notes from Rocky Linux's emergency call to discuss impact of this announcement:
https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/resf-rocky-linux-git-c.o-changes
And #RedHat has published a statement re-affirming their commitment to #OpenSource...
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes
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There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. [...] More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder."
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Well I don't see value in supporting a commercial entity which doesn't see value in the open source community. We'll be steering our subscription dollars elsewhere.
@john_b Yeah, exactly. "Screw you all, we are out for ourselves."
I wonder how this will effect Fedora and Nobara (My current daily driver) in the future.
I do think closed source does have a place, I use some, mainly drivers and the like, but I pay for those companies to write those drivers by buying their product, but within the Linux community it seems when a company wants to focus on "enterprise" etc that's the kiss of death.
I'm thinking of Canonical as much as I am RHEL
@NiveusLepus I don't *think* this should impact Fedora as it remains upstream from RHEL.
We're looking real hard at Ubuntu Pro for our systems which need production support / long-term updates.
@NiveusLepus Agreed.
This (re)statement reads very much like "look, we built a successful business on the backs of the open source community but we no longer see 'value' in allowing others to build on our backs."