Have they given a reason? The blog post doesn't list one.
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@BuboScandiacus Hm. As far as I know it's not Fedora which is based on RHEL but rather RHEL which is based on Fedora?
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The discussion on the LWN post gives some insight into why this is probably happening. Most likely due to Rocky/Alma not contributing upstream while benefiting from Red Hat's work.
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🙄 this is why all my gigs in the past few years have only used debian or alpine
Wtf?! It's going closed source?
I hate how profit hungry corps will do anything in their power to attack the open source movement. Because it's completely out of their control.
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They can't go closed source. They aren't going closed source. It's not allowed under the GPL, so not sure what you mean by this.
Interestingly, I've been trying to push my HPC customers towards SLES and Ubuntu LTS. SLES has better extended support for minor releases (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg), and Ubuntu's LTS... for obvious reasons.