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Following the usual playbook, IBM's Red Hat begins locking down access to it's "open source" (www.jeffgeerling.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by Penguincoder@beehaw.org to c/operating_systems@beehaw.org

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Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.

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[–] psudo@beehaw.org 5 points 3 years ago

You aren't Red Hat's target customer. Their target is a large corporation that not only wants to pay for official support, but often needs to thanks to regulations or the like.

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