More about Red Hat’s decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.
I liked the SFConservancy’s take on this move. Red Hat has always skirted the line of GPL compliance with the way they offer their support, and while the latest move may still be legally compliant, it’s another signal that shows their dedication to open-source isn’t as strong as it once was.
I liked Jeff Geerlings take as well. It’s pretty much the same though…
I’m disappointed by the general reaction of the Linux community about this. I can understand some hesitation and worry around hearing what Red Hat had said, but it didn’t warrant jumping to such an extreme, even going so far to attack somebody who believes in open source as much if not more than anybody else. We need Red Hat in this fight for software freedom because the truth is they contribute sooooo much more than any hobbyist can. Support people supporting Linux.
I’d say I’m disappointed, but I’m really not. I knew this was basically how this was going to play out. I’ve already been called a paid shill, and stupid a handful of times today elsewhere, for not wanting to burn RedHat to the ground for this decision.
People need to get outside and touch some grass.
Your final sentence comes across as dismissive. I suppose you didn’t mean it that way, but please be aware of the tone.
It was meant to be dismissive. Happy to clear that up for you.
After reading and watching way too much content related to this, I think this has been blown way out of proportion.
I don’t understand how anyone can honestly say that RHEL is going closed source when they know that’s factually incorrect. I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re changing from Fedora to Ubuntu and not see the colossal irony on that. If anything, I can understand the position of RH even more. If I made a 1:1 clone distro of Fedora, nobody would give a shit about it. So, the ONLY incentive of using a 1:1 clone of RHEL is saving money.
And please, spare me the “Alma Linux is a gateway to RHEL”, because any sane business will take any opportunity to save money.
Why not taking CentOS, direct upstream of RHEL, and use its code to create a RHEL competitor? Why not taking RHEL code, modify it and make a different distro instead of a bug-for-bug clone? (They’ve encouraged this in their blog post). The more I read, the more I feel it is because it takes work, simple as.
