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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ? (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Aren’t there poison pill clauses in a lot of OSS licenses that prevent moves like this? Could they face legal repercussions?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have they given a reason? The blog post doesn't list one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Reduce effort. They say there’s duplication between hosting RHEL and Centos, so they’ll just do Centos. Since Redhat becomes Centos anyway it seems neither here nor there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This has been coming for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Great response to the discussion, as this 2012 article lays our their path many years ago. Lots of very economically valid reasons for changing, and it seems to have worked even if it is a shame to see. It makes me wonder if the changing economy is going to put more pressure on other favorites to monitize or fail. I say this given that volunteers are showing a decline so without people spending free time, then open-source software will face further challenges.

I don't want to digress too much, but I can't help but juxtapose the slow change and monetization RH has done very well as compared to the idiocy that Reddit is doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I was there at nearly the beginning with Redhat 1 and kernel series 1.1.x and 1.2.x series. Redhat died when IBM bought them. My company has finally completely moved away - I pushed very strongly to dump RHAT - all Debian and FreeBSD now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Big Blue asserting their dominance. Unfortunately at the cost of some very fantastic community projects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ehh, well it's something interesting. I've never really ever used RHEL myself on any of my servers. I do know some people that might be impacted.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

As a strictly desktop/personal Linux user, could someone enlighten me: What advantage (if any) does RHEL have over Ubuntu Pro at this point?

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