Until they change their minds in a few months/years.
I really wish they would just go 100% paid and stop pretending they care about anything free at this point.
RH isn't the company that it once was anymore.
Edit: I'm sure this is not a popular opinion but it is what it is.
>I really wish they would just go 100% paid and stop pretending they care about anything open/free at this point.
As a Red Hat employee for ~5 years, every line of code I've ever written professionally has been open source and licensed under the GPL. The same is generally true across the entire company (with the exception of contributions to external projects licensed Apache / MIT / BSD).
Can you explain what you mean by "open/free"? Perhaps "free beer" rather than "freedom"?
>Can you explain what you mean by "open/free"? Perhaps "free beer" rather than "freedom"?
You installed 16 systems and a half year later RH says, and in 1 year you have to pay for these or change to CentOS Stream, i think it's a very founded consideration after the CentOS debacle.
But not sure what he means that RH does not care about Opensource...
Licensed under the GPL is one thing -- intentionally obfuscated to make actual compilation difficult is compatible in letter but not in spirit of the license. Red Hat's citizenship in the FLOSS community varies from "savior" to "nuisance" depending on the project...
Percent-wise I don't think there is any other company that contributes as much to open source software, I do think it was a dick move from them but let's not conflate the things.
My comment wasn't really related to opensource, but in general to their new way of doing business.
Nothing wrong with changing the company's direction and trying to go full profit mode, just don't try to pretend everything's the same as before.
dralley|5 years ago
As a Red Hat employee for ~5 years, every line of code I've ever written professionally has been open source and licensed under the GPL. The same is generally true across the entire company (with the exception of contributions to external projects licensed Apache / MIT / BSD).
Can you explain what you mean by "open/free"? Perhaps "free beer" rather than "freedom"?
nix23|5 years ago
You installed 16 systems and a half year later RH says, and in 1 year you have to pay for these or change to CentOS Stream, i think it's a very founded consideration after the CentOS debacle.
But not sure what he means that RH does not care about Opensource...
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