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.
@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."
@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.
@john_b I dropped Red Hat years ago. I started using RedHat 5.2 at the end of '98. Loved it. Dumped RH in 2011 when they started this crap.
I use Ubuntu for desktop development and Debian on the server.
@john_b It seems quite disingenuous and unfair to me that Red Hat has spent years as part of Foss, and benefiting from the foss Community, only to turn around and make this move.