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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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cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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This is a fight between IBM and Oracle. There’s been a lot of bad blood between them since Oracle did a s/Red Hat/Oracle/r for their own branded distribution.

IMO that’s the main driver behind this change: don’t feed your largest competitor free stuff and not something specific against Rocky/Alma/whoever else is using the code.

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!ozoned@lemmy.world@beehaw.org
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So then Oracle just gets 1 dev account and pulls the source.

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nkey@lemmy.ml
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This was my initial thought as well, but I imagine that would violate the terms of their subscription and Red Hat could just revoke their access going forward.

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priapus@sh.itjust.works
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I doubt it would legal to make that against the terms. It GPL code, Oracle is allowed to access it as they please.

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squidzorz@lemmy.ml
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They didn’t even go that far lol. There’s still Red Hat branding all over the place in Oracle Linux.

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cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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Wait wait, Oracle took someone’s stuff and did a lazy half-assed job of slapping Larry’s name on it and then shipped it as a product they then sell seven-figure support contracts on?

Well, I do declare.

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Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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Oracle is the Trump of Linux.

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