The Linux Community Is Circumventing Red Hat's Controversial New Strategy
The Linux Community Is Circumventing Red Hat's Controversial New Strategy
Red Hat’s recent decision to restrict the source code for its enterprise Linux build has led open-source projects big and small to come up with creative strategies to continue to serve their users.
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.
The group known for going against the grain, and intentionally looking for alternatives. Are going against the grain and looking for alternatives.
How unexpected.
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@dontcarebear @ylai Debian is hard to beat.. Screw corporate Linux.. Stick with tried and true distros like Debian & everything will be sweet....
Yes, community distros are the way to go, at least for private use. Companies might need certifications not available for e.g. Debian.
I was using Fedora happily for quite a while until I tried NixOS, and now I'm really glad about not having to worry about acquisitions or corporate decisions. Though my mums laptop runs Fedora Silverblue just fine and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. Fedora is community driven, but it is tied to RH to some degree.
I think I'll be checking out OpenSuse. They haven't been controversial lately afaik and just keep doing their thing.
In my eyes my problem with moving to SUSE or Ubuntu is that it's the same thing. A corporation backed or straight up corporation developed and owned distro still has ONE failure point. Right now SUSE are "the good guys", but what if they get bought? What if there's a new CEO? What if they suddenly just decide to abuse their power? Then you're simply screwed. Red Hat were also seen as "one of the good guys" some months ago, but the way things work, companies always end up pivoting towards what makes them more money. Them being ethical is nothing but a luxury that happens if they can afford it and if we are lucky.
I'm moving to Debian once I get my new PC.
There's nothing wrong with Ubuntu in a professional environment. I prefer Debian, but whatever suits your goals.
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.
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.
The amount of 👎, 🤡, 💩, and 🤦♂️ emojis on that CentOS Stream PR is so funny to me! Basically every comment the RedHat guy made was like that