Technology @beehaw.org MyNameIsFred @beehaw.org 1 yr. ago

Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

www.phoronix.com Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

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To me everything seems to point to the fact that community developed distros, even if funded by corporations, seems to be the best option moving forward.
When I say we abide by the various open source licenses that apply to our code, I mean it.

So he's saying that Red Hat intends to abide by licenses such as the GNU GPL, and yet...

Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere. This is a real threat to open source...

Red Hat is claiming that redistribution (which is explicitly allowed and encouraged by the GPL) is a threat to open source. They are also threatening to penalize customers who do exercise the rights granted to them by the licenses that Red Hat claims that they will "abide by".

According to Red Hat the GNU GPL is a threat to open source. And they think this won't make people angry?
From what i get,

It seems like they are pissed at oracle specifically,
Selling a oracle branded rhel clone with minor tweaks and a oracle certified sticker.

And the other downstream distros are just collateral damage.

Obviously wouldn't make it better
(But imo more understandable)
- The literal point of GPL is that Oracle is explicitly entitled to do exactly that. You don't own the code.
  
  We had this already with mongodb, Elastic search and AWS. It's not sustainable to give away your work to your competitors so they can make the money.
... feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit. This demand for RHEL code is disingenuous.

Then remove all open source code from your code base. I don't mean some, I mean all. Let's see whose code you're repackaging for your own profit.
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- I can't help but notice how similar their phrasing is to Spez trying to justify why Reddit has yanked the rug out from under their third party app developers.
  
  It’s not surprising. A lot of these CEOs run around in cliques. They have forums, news letters, Chatrooms, and social events. When Silicon Valley Bank went down, the CEO of the company I work for was giving us news from other CEOs he was talking to from a shared Chatroom they set up, basically a discord for CEOs.
  
  The other point is that many CEOs are slaves to trend and have a deep fear of missing out.
  
  In a way, they’re organized, and combined with the above, that’s part of why when one big company hops everyone leaps behind them as if they’re moving as one (it’s all a dick-measuring Highschool clique contest though, which is why I don’t use the word conspiracy). I would not be surprised if Huffman and Musk both repeated their rhetoric to an adoring crowd of fellows before they took it to their feeds. It’s maybe why they speak so brazenly, because there is a little echo chamber of people who worship at the altar of Survivorship bias in the hope that heaven will send them more bigger-dick pills.
  
  It’s the classic argument of “your reasonable concerns are detrimental to our business model”
  
  I think the solution is the same.
Ugh, fuck it. I'm transitioning my developers to straight-up Debian. I don't need this shit.

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