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Red Hat and the Clone Wars (dissociatedpress.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1505259

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/91676

It’s been an exciting week for people who care about Linux distributions, FOSS licensing, FOSS distribution, FOSS business models, and the future of open source in general. Red Hat’s an…

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The discussion of Red Hat is overkill for the number of links and discussions.

For people who do not maintain or are not admin for RHEL clone servers, there seems to be an element of addicted to outrage going on, feigning being upset so they can be part of the trend without providing solutions.

If IBM is committed to changing to a paid source available model, all of this talk and outrage is moot.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Agreed. Its news for sure, and maybe it speeks to some broader topics (like if the wider linux community wants things what RHEL offers, how would we go about doing that), but this isn't some Judas kiss to the Linux world.

    I am contributing to the topic though, because people are taking it to an extreme looking at even avoiding Fedora, the community ran distro, that have nothing to do in this decision.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Some people, maybe a lot of people, do not want a solution, they want to follow the trend and feed their fix of being angry for things don't make the slightest difference in how they live their life outside of online comment sections.

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