In the end, I see Red Hat's behavior as a net win for the open source community. It's going to drive Linux innovation harder. Ironically, the is a net loss for Red Hat. It's a serious self-inflicted wound.
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The group known for going against the grain, and intentionally looking for alternatives. Are going against the grain and looking for alternatives.
How unexpected.
It’s quite a stretch to call the RHEL-clone companies “the Linux Community”.
RedHat developers created large parts of the Linux software ecosystem and are involved in many upstream projects of RHEL. If anyone is part of the community, it’s them.
Yes I don't think people realize how much Red Hat contributes to Linux. Linux is no longer coders in their home it's people who are paid to develop it buy companies.
If I was a business customer of Rocky, I would not sleep well knowing what kind of sketchy backdoor way they use to keep their distro alive... Alma however seems to be doing it properly and they will actually create a benefit to the open source community this way.
If you were willing to spend money, why not just get it from RH directly.
Because even if you pay them, RedHat won't allow you exercising your GPL rights and redistributing the sources.
they're doing what they need to. it's not sketchy. it's not like they fired up a bittorrent search for 'rhel sources' and took the first results (ru, cn, probably) they found.
but i'd rather they just blatantly subscribed to rhel, downloaded all the sources directly, stripped their branding out, packaged alma, and dared ibm to go after them.