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Red Hat didn't "close up the source" to anything. All the source to RHEL is available in CenOS Stream's git repos. All of the source to all Red Hat products is available in upstream projects too. Nothing's "closed".
What was announced was that the source to RHEL would only be publicly published in git (with history, tagged releases, etc.) instead of publically available SRPMs (unless you use a Red Hat account — even a free one — then you could also download SRPMs).
Where are those alternatives? I have not seen anything that is Baustoff convincing yet...
It is not a project owned by redhat... the lead guy not even works there anymore. So the more interesting question is: What happens if Microsoft closes down the project? The answer: It will be forked.
Which part(s) of systemd is pipewire meant to replace?
PulseAudio != systemd
Pulseaudio isn't part of systemd.
@t0m5k1 @sickday You clearly don’t know what you are talking about.
To my knowledge, pipewire was never meant to replace any part of systemd. I don't think systemd does anything related to audio either. OP was claiming otherwise so I asked for clarification.
@sickday @TCB13 @t0m5k1 @hunger Pulseaudio is written by Poettering but it isn’t and never has been part of systemd, so yeah, I don’t know why somebody brings it up in systemd discussion.
We fork it... like people are doing with LXD/LXC... https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/