This is a MAJOR development with Redhat NO LONGER giving public access to the base RHEL source code. .
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UPDATE: YOU CAN NOT USE DEV ACCOUNT FOR UPDATING – Alma's update: https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/ Rocky Update: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.24fab14385c0aa2db6fa7340a8b2aae7 – TLDR – NOT GOOD!
The official statement from redhat was "CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public @RHEL-related source code releases. Read more about this change. https://red.ht/3XoUOYP"
We will have to wait and see how this plays out, but I imagine they want to make it very hard for RHEL 1:1 Distros like Alma, Rocky and Oracle.
The title of the Windows of the Linux world should go to RHEL, not Ubuntu.
I'm curious wether this will make more people and companies use it more , or less .
It sounds to me that Redhat used to be free and open source. Now its just open source. If you are a paying customer, Redhat is as open as it always was. If I'm wrong I do apologize. I'm not very knowledgeable in this space.
Is Fedora still FOSS, is it still recommended to use ?
I wish the community were a little more genuine about Red Hat’s motivations here and not just blindly assume this is an IBM issue. RHEL copycats have been a problem for Red Hat for MANY years in a way no other open source project has had to deal with. Most forks of open source projects are literally forks, adding some sort of additional capabilities or value proposition and then offering a product. Most RHEL clones are just code copies offered at a cheaper price with nobody but RH bearing the cost of engineering of their value-add work on top of the freely available Linux base and contributions that every distro gets to use at no cost. If this wasn’t a valuable contribution to the Linux ecosystem, then we’d all be using Ubuntu or Arch for everything.
The issue is that is Red Hat wants to be able to put dollars into making something, they have to be able to recoup costs by selling a product, and that becomes impossible if a competitor undercuts the value with no costs incurred and no engineering effort on their part to recreate the product bit for bit. The only solution they have is to make code access fall under a legal agreement that deters people from slapping a logo on RHEL and calling it theirs.
Red Hat is an easy target because they’re the only company out there charging enterprise grade prices for open source software, and people constantly want to undercut the cost to pad their bottom line. The reality though is that enterprise grade selling motions and enterprise grade features don’t just happen out of the goodness of people’s hearts like prosumer OS components do. These features take time, effort, and an entirely separate ecosystem of partners and users that you as a community user NEVER interact with.
Allowing the value stream to be a race to the bottom would almost certainly put Red Hat out of business (and lose IBM tons of money), but more importantly, it would leave enterprise companies with a giant hole of degraded services and aging infrastructure as they try to fill in the gaps with software that doesn’t really meet the requirements or have enough capital (human or $) to maintain. Some other company will fill the gap to provide support, but they will not have the $$ to actually maintain and build the next generation of enterprise requirements, and Linux will stagnate.
Linux in particular has spoiled us SO MUCH with what quality of software we can get free to use that we forget those features have a real cost that someone has to bear, and if nobody pays, nobody gets.
Im not disappointed. There’s free alternatives (rocky and opensuse beignmy favs) If you work in the GOVTECH industry then you will know that a lot of government agencies run on redhat/ibm. Its a matter if homeland security. Imagine having security features open source to your enemy.
I was never really a fan of Red Hat anyway. My first experiences with Linux at all was RH 6.1 & 7.2 and never felt comfortable using it on the Daily..
i think Playnetwork use redhat an old vers. but i think they changed it about this time of this vid.
im still trying to by pass a password page for the music players options so i can maybe make it play from any cd.
Corporate Linux will always be evil, without exception. That's just how it is.
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That's why they should have used FreeBSD!
Armored horse situation is in the make. Don't let them get away with it!
If the can pull it off others will try too.
Why did I watch this
I am newbie to Linux and I want to learn Linux commands and the structure of Linux system OS . what Linux distro do you recommend?
Boohoo waah.
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It is surprising that Red Hat wants to be paid for giving patches and Bug Fixes to corporate customers??????
so that's what this is– Linux is dead? I shouldn't even switch to Linux?
What is gonna happen to Fedora?
This is click bait. Too many people are misrepresenting what Red Hat did. They are approaching it different from historical precedence but I don't think it's inconsistent with the goals of open source nor violating licensing. The code is all available. Red Hat pushes changes upstream anyway so all the code contributions for the community are still there and the RHEL packaging/ QA specific ro their subscriber products shouldn't be something competitors try to claim without contributing back which is what was happening. Now those orgs have to either contribute more to the process or they get the code without trying to claim the non-code certifications Red Hat does.
With so much of linux code being licensed as open source how can they get away with that?
Yeah I heard about that. I'm both a Desktop Support Tech and Linux Admin all in one as we still deep in the Red Hat eco system but I'm starting to see some organizations uses Ubuntu. There even a certification exam for Ubuntu.