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Red Hat and the Clone Wars (dissociatedpress.net)

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/91676

It’s been an exciting week for people who care about Linux distributions, FOSS licensing, FOSS distribution, FOSS business models, and the future of open source in general. Red Hat’s an…

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[-] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This should be non controversial. RH is complying with it's obligations to those that it distributes to. Alma, Rocky, Oracle and Amazon have all built RHEL competitors based on RHEL. Red Hat shouldn't be obligated to do the work for it's commercial competitors. And let's not delude ourselves that RH and IBM are not major contributors to the Linux eco-system upstream. The issue here is that competitors want to have patch for patch RHEL and the back ports from upstream for free.

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