Following the usual playbook, IBM's Red Hat begins locking down access to it's "open source"

SemioticStandard, 1 year ago

What is it lately with companies and shooting themselves in the foot? Have all the CEOs gotten together and mutually decided that this was the year they were going to piss off their communities?

Red Hat are burning through a lot of the good will they’ve made over the years with this.

Here’s the statement the Rocky Linux folks put out:

rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/

Good luck, brothers. I wish you well.

hopolapopola, 1 year ago

well that’s a bit of a dick move

Hirom, 1 year ago

Opensource licenses typically doesn’t require the software to be free, just that the source and modification be made available to users.

Making user pay to access both binaries and source is fair, as long as RedHat keep contributing code to upstream projects.