• danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      8 months ago

      Yes, and made many of us realise just how important it is to use and support Community distros and projects, and ditch the Corps.

      No more Ubuntu, no more Fedora (Red Hat in disguise). Use Debian and any other community distro.

      I’ve settled on Linux Mint Debian Edition, personally.

  • andruid@lemmy.ml
    10·
    8 months ago

    As a former RedHat advocate it sucks honestly, I have to find companies like Rancher and Suse that off truly FOSS products now. Like I want opensource devs to get paid if they are being depended on, but the RedHat paywall makes avoiding the vendor lock or trying to be cost flexible a legal land mine. They also offer more and more proprietary rebrands of FOSS projects that I fear will get EEEd as well.

  • Kata1yst@kbin.social
    145·
    8 months ago

    Don’t besmirch Red Hat this way. Red Hat is as dead as Sun Microsystems at this point. They’re just being Weekend at Bernie’s-ed by IBM. Despite IBMs promise of independent operation and business as usual.

      • SGH Fan@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I also don’t know what the terminology is. I’m in North Raleigh, and I sometimes go to downtown.

        • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Used to live in Cary, now in Clayton (house prices… geez). Work at State so I see that giant Redhat building everyday. Hell I’m on Centennial campus so they used to be down the street.

  • stella@lemm.ee
    41·
    8 months ago

    Eh. Not sure why people would go with red hat over debian these days.

      • stella@lemm.ee
        7·
        8 months ago

        Maybe it’s just me, but if you’re doing something technical enough to require commercial support, shouldn’t you have a competent IT team that doesn’t need it?

        Just seems weird to pay additional money for technical support of your OS when teams using Debian don’t have to. Are they just more competent on average than teams using Red Hat?

        • version_unsorted@lemmy.ml
          8·
          8 months ago

          This is totally right, but people with money like to point fingers and blame others. Ultimately paying for support is PR insurance.

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
    63·
    8 months ago

    How can they use GPL’ed code and then close it? I thought this was specifically forbidden?

    • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
      10·
      8 months ago

      It’s available to the end users - I.e. red hats customers. End users are who the GPL is there to help, not everyone on the planet.

      • plumcreek@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        Exactly. Amazing how many people seem to forget it is “free as in freedom, not free as in beer”.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    8 months ago

    Thought the GPL theoretically forbade this. No? Licensing is not a strong suit of mine…

    • EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Not what they did on the surface (limiting source to only customers). That’s allowed by the GPL. But they went beyond that which imo makes them non-compliant.

      1. RH will cancel your access/agreement if you share the GPL’d source with others. That’s directly forbidden by section 6 of the GPLv2. RH is free to cancel your agreement when they want, but not because you exercised your rights under the GPL.

      2. Once your agreement is canceled, you also lose access to the matching source for other GPL’d packages installed on your system. RH could offer other methods to be in compliance, but as far as I know, they have not.