• Raphael@lemmy.world
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    When other companies made a business out of building a clone distro from the source

    This has a name… someone help… tip of my tongue… aaaaah… FREE SOFTWARE?

    Did Red Hat invent linux? Did Red Hat write bash?

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      No, but Red Hat created the following major projects:

      • Wayland
      • PipeWire
      • PulseAudio
      • systemd
      • FreeIPA
      • Keycloak
      • OpenStack
      • NetworkManager
      • Ceph

      They’re also major contributors of the following projects:

      • Xorg
      • GNOME
      • LibreOffice
      • radeon
      • Linux kernel

      If you use Linux, you directly use or benefit from Red Hat contributions. As simple as that.

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          This is an ethical problem. You can rebrand RHEL as Oracle Linux, copy Red Hat’s business model, and dump the work on Red Hat, but should you do that? Nobody at Oracle stopped to think about that question. According to the software license, sure. But is it ethical to exploit the good will of foss to these extremes? I would personally say no, especially considering Red Hat reinvests money into foss. Money now in the pockets of Oracle.

          Imagine you develop a foss and license the software under MIT like everybody else does. Now a company roams around and makes your foss a core part of their business after a massive success. Perhaps they’re the next FAANG company, who knows. You generated billions of dollars in revenue for that company, and never saw any of that. You regret your careless licensing decision, yeah. But at the end of the day, you will feel exploited.

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      What even is the point you think you’re arguing against with me? Someone asked when RedHat decided to change aspects of their business model and I provided an answer. I didn’t say I agree with it. Even in the face of me saying literally “I don’t support RedHat” and “I haven’t used RH in like 20 years” you seem really dedicated to convincing yourself that I just love RedHat and think they can do no wrong. Geerling is right. RedHat is stupid, and IBM is killing whatever was left of the brand. There are many, many alternatives to RedHat. Both free and commercial. Lets use them instead of clinging to RedHat-but-not-RedHat-because-we-don’t-want-to-pay-RedHat.