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Why Corporate Owned Linux Distributions are a Bad Idea (youtu.be)
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When it comes to Linux Distros, each are either managed by their community or by a company. With recent news, it becomes clearer than ever that those managed...

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I'm confused on how this is legal? Isn't Linux based on a license that prevents them from doing that? I was under the understanding that was how CentOS came into being in the first place.

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

    It's not the Linux kernel that's being closed, but likely their own contributions, which most likely aren't all GPL.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    And that is dumb. Companies with any sense will veer to debian and distros that are going to be open with their own contributions because gasp - you can write code, put it out under gpl v2 or a permissive license and make money on the support contracts like they were doing.

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