HOWEVER, they are no longer dumping the 1:1 RHEL source code. So the changes to RHEL will still be available, but freeloading for-profit projects will have to locate and integrate the packages separately and at their own time and expense i.e Alma, Scientific, etc.
Basically certain companies would sell their cheaper RHEL clones on the promise that they were “bug for bug compatible” with RHEL, but cost a lot less overall, because they weren’t shouldering any development costs.
Exactly. To add on to this, there were companies deploying clones and then buying a RHEL license to get access to support for all of it. These are the same kinds of people who run their businesses on pirated software. We should have zero sympathy for them.
Projects like Rocky and Alma may have been valuable for developers and small projects, but they were also enabling freeloaders. Looking at this whole thing objectively, it is clear that Red Hat is targeting the freeloaders who run their business on CentOS and are scamming support. That is evident in the fact that they are giving away free licenses for small projects.
The only differences is that it won’t be available in one location for freeloading for-profit company to simply copy and paste.
They’ll have to go to the various repositories and integrate the updates and compatibility issues themselves.
Again, it’s all still available open source code. But RHEL will stop publicly organizing all of it in manor that allows companies like Alma and Rocky to skate by without doing any work and no longer able to undercut RHEL with “bug for bug” clones.
hasn’t red hat always been proprietary whereas fedora was community driven?
Everything is still FOSS.
HOWEVER, they are no longer dumping the 1:1 RHEL source code. So the changes to RHEL will still be available, but freeloading for-profit projects will have to locate and integrate the packages separately and at their own time and expense i.e Alma, Scientific, etc.
Basically certain companies would sell their cheaper RHEL clones on the promise that they were “bug for bug compatible” with RHEL, but cost a lot less overall, because they weren’t shouldering any development costs.
Exactly. To add on to this, there were companies deploying clones and then buying a RHEL license to get access to support for all of it. These are the same kinds of people who run their businesses on pirated software. We should have zero sympathy for them.
Projects like Rocky and Alma may have been valuable for developers and small projects, but they were also enabling freeloaders. Looking at this whole thing objectively, it is clear that Red Hat is targeting the freeloaders who run their business on CentOS and are scamming support. That is evident in the fact that they are giving away free licenses for small projects.
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…all the code is released. ALL of it.
The only differences is that it won’t be available in one location for freeloading for-profit company to simply copy and paste.
They’ll have to go to the various repositories and integrate the updates and compatibility issues themselves.
Again, it’s all still available open source code. But RHEL will stop publicly organizing all of it in manor that allows companies like Alma and Rocky to skate by without doing any work and no longer able to undercut RHEL with “bug for bug” clones.
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Imagine RHEL is a puzzle of 10,000 FOSS packages.
Those 10,000 packages can be ordered and configured in a variety of ways, of which RHEL is one.
The 10,000 packages are all still released, per GPL.
What’s different is that RHEL is not making freely available the SPECIFIC ORDER their puzzle is put together in.
BUT all puzzle pieces are still made freely available by RHEL.
Or do you believe there is nothing wrong with how Rocky Linux operates it’s for-profit business model?
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