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so kde neon gets the new plasma first, eh? who's next? 🙂 kubuntu or fedora?
The tribal Linux war is brewing.
RHEL is NOT open source. Anyone who says that anymore is either completely out of the loop or just loves being fed RHEL bs
Woohoo!! Thunderbird integrated with LibreOffice! That sounds like an amazing pairing! Sure hope that one happens.
Actually, red hat should have made rhel free with upto 3 years of support and for enterprises, where the actual money is made, they would definitely need much more than 3 years of support and hence the paid plan to have 10 years of support would have been a fantastic plan and would have also made less incentive for other distros to rebuild rhel clones while still keeping the open source spirit alive.
Is Red Hat the sole copyleft owner of the former GPL code now limited by their decision? Because if not other contributors could insist on their GPL copyleft, meaning red hat has to continue distributing the code under the GPL
Redhat is devilish, they even lock the documentation behind paywall since ages.
Thanks
The OG of Linux News
Is RedHat about to be hated as much as Canonical/Ubuntu? Or is everyone going to just pretend like the hate was never just pointlessly political?
It IS illegal, because GPL demands that your customers can redistribute GPLed source code as they please. Red Hat trying to put a license infront of that freedom is breaking their own license to distribute that GPLed code.
I appreciate your coverage of the RHEL source code situation. Thank you for the respectable coverage, and NOT fear mongering.
First, thanks for your work, I'm following you for a while now, and what you do is really nice.
Thanks also for the way you presented the RHEL news. That's probably the nicest that could be found around.
Yet, there is one thing which is factually incorrect about it: individuals don't need to pay to access RHEL sources. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription is free of charge, and gives full access to all binaries and sources from RHEL.
I feel like Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman and the rest in the community will have something to say about this. If they say it's ok and RedHat will justify this well with the CentOS-Stream, then ok, but if it's bad, who knows, maybe they will update the license from kernel 6.6 and above to prevent this practice. One thing is for sure, the opensource community will always win.
GNOME has kinda messed up the text editor by naming it gnome-text-editor: editing any file which requires sudo feels cumbersome. On the other hand, gedit is such a short name, and tab completion completes it faster than gnome-text-editor
Same with the new Console app: there's no option to change caret style; I'm always an I-beam user, and not able to change it is forcing me to stick to gnome-terminal. I hope GNOME fixes these in the near future.
Why does IBM try to re-do the failing of UNIX?
fedora is mainstream for redhat and centos, why would anyone continue contributing to fedora linux .
We have to remember that Red Hat is actually IBM.
wait doesn't the linux license say sure you can charge ppl for source code but you can't prevent them from forking it?
A reason more to avoid fedora again.
I was actually giving the benefit of doubt to Red Hat, but we have to be aware now they are IBM, and a corpo will just milk you once they have enough users.
Even if they decided to charge, I get it, it is a company that employs people, but nullifying GPL3 and hiding the source code… I mean, it is pretty much ransom for people who trusted in a beloved open source company. It is clear now they cannot be trusted.
RedHat's move is NOT a very Linux move… it's very anti-open source.
9:18 KDE needs this so bad
you DO NOT pronounce the G in Gnome…. its pronounced Nome.
This is IBM
Red hat is one GPLv4 away from legal problems. A lot of software under the GPL license is licensed on GPLv3 or newer. GPLv4 could fix this.
In gpl v3.0, it states
"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things." Im not a lawyer or anything, but from my understanding, does this mean if you acquire/pay for the program/soruce code, in this case Paid red hat products & or free distros, you have the rights to change the software and/or use it in pieces of free programs? Please let me know if im wrong in the comments ❤
They're way more concerned with Oracle Linux than Rocky or Alma. Oracle has been actively eating Red Hat's market share for decades.
What happens to rocky linux and alma linux if red hat is restricting their source codes
I think they will be moving to fedora