Red Hat’s recent decision to restrict the source code for its enterprise Linux build has led open-source projects big and small to come up with creative strategies to continue to serve their users.
  • nobug-404@geddit.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The group known for going against the grain, and intentionally looking for alternatives. Are going against the grain and looking for alternatives.

    How unexpected.

  • jw13@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s quite a stretch to call the RHEL-clone companies “the Linux Community”.

    RedHat developers created large parts of the Linux software ecosystem and are involved in many upstream projects of RHEL. If anyone is part of the community, it’s them.

    • exu@feditown.com
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      2 years ago

      I think I’ll be checking out OpenSuse. They haven’t been controversial lately afaik and just keep doing their thing.

      • mimichuu_@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        In my eyes my problem with moving to SUSE or Ubuntu is that it’s the same thing. A corporation backed or straight up corporation developed and owned distro still has ONE failure point. Right now SUSE are “the good guys”, but what if they get bought? What if there’s a new CEO? What if they suddenly just decide to abuse their power? Then you’re simply screwed. Red Hat were also seen as “one of the good guys” some months ago, but the way things work, companies always end up pivoting towards what makes them more money. Them being ethical is nothing but a luxury that happens if they can afford it and if we are lucky.

        I’m moving to Debian once I get my new PC.

        • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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          2 years ago

          Whenever you use “RedHat”, replace it with “IBM”, as that’s who they really are now. Tech companies to avoid (imho) are IBM and Oracle, both of who have linux distros.

          Until Canonical or SUSE become evil (unlikely), or are bought by an industry evil, then you’re better off.

          • mimichuu_@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            I mean, in my eyes Canonical is already evil. SUSE is pretty nice right now, but like I said, them being nice is nothing but a luxury. There’s no guarantee it wont happen, and you could probably argue it’s fated to happen eventually.

  • X3I@lemmy.x3i.techEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If I was a business customer of Rocky, I would not sleep well knowing what kind of sketchy backdoor way they use to keep their distro alive… Alma however seems to be doing it properly and they will actually create a benefit to the open source community this way.

    • ares35@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      they’re doing what they need to. it’s not sketchy. it’s not like they fired up a bittorrent search for ‘rhel sources’ and took the first results (ru, cn, probably) they found.

      but i’d rather they just blatantly subscribed to rhel, downloaded all the sources directly, stripped their branding out, packaged alma, and dared ibm to go after them.