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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)
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They were bought by IBM a few years back, but even aside from that they’re a corporation and they care about making money above all else.

It looks like Red Hat is doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t think the incessant Fedora shilling is unrelated.

It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The GPL says you can get the source to software that people distribute to you. Red Hat does not distribute to Rocky.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

Seems like they use that to circumvent other parts of the gpl, in spirit and possibly in the letter of the law. Others have more and better things to say about it than I:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb