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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?

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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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curtismchale@lemmy.ca
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I’m newish to Fedora and admit I don’t understand the whole developer/governance structure of it vs RHEL, but the news did make me wonder about continuing to use Fedora.

Reading some comments here, maybe it’s a non-issue. Guess I’ll have to dig more.

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Oswald_Buzzbald@kbin.social
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Fellow Fedora user here. I find this is a little concerning, but overall, I’m not too worried. Fedora is their test bed for stuff, although it is a very stable, well maintained test bed.

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squidzorz@lemmy.ml
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It’s a complete non-issue. Sensationalist headlines are so easy to make about this.

Anybody who has a FREE developer account can access the source code.

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curtismchale@lemmy.ca
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Thanks for more information.

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