Whatever RedHat is doing, whether you find it reasonable or not; whether it is within the letter of the law or not; a few things are clear.
They no longer believe in people's right to redistribute code. And from the sounds of the legal language they fence their code portal with. They do not believe in people's right to fork RHEL either.
Which means their corporate philosophy stands in direct conflict with the open source and free software definitions.
@trashheap so what?
The only valid move against moves like that of #RedHat and #grsecurity beefore them is to refuse to use, develop for or maintain their systems in protest of it.
Because #RHEL lives off the supoort by 2nd and 3rd parties. @ubuntu might be a good choice since a lot of corporations that got shafted in the axing of #CentOS 8 are moving to them as they don't paywall #Ubuntu LTS at all.
I think it's important to break apart @redhat 's dominance and the de-facto duopoly with #SUSE.
One notable aspect of SUSE is its close association with open-source software. SUSE is an active contributor to various open-source projects, and it maintains strong partnerships with the open-source community. SUSE Linux is built upon the open-source codebase, leveraging the Linux kernel and a wide array of open-source software packages.
@fuomag9 But if you really want out of the RHEL ecosystem, I would look at #OpenSuSE leap/#SuSE SLES. SLES is built on the end public binaries as OpenSuSE Leap. It's also an rpm distro, so it should be an easier transition than Ubuntu or Debian.
I really don't understand what purpose this move serves, especially if the RHEL source code will still be available to people with access to those repos - so it's still kind of public, if you give them your personal info and update that info annually in return? Is it just to have people use different mirrors for the sources? I don't see how this entices someone to buy RHEL or get a Developer Sub who isn't already doing that.
@fedops@RL_Dane@dfloyd888 One way that #SuSE is definitely better is that #OpenSuSE Leap and SLES have reliably co-existed for nearly 8 years now. If platform predictability is now a concern, (Open)SuSE looks pretty good. As of 15.3, Leap and SLES are built from the same publicly available sources.
@popey Good old times back in 2004! I was still at #MandrakeSoft (#Mandriva) in #Paris. Mandriva had #KDE as default and #GNOME only as alternative, but still have often seen these window decorations, especially on conferences ... My last kernel compilations were only before my time at Mandrakesoft as sysadmin 1997-2000 where I had my first contact with Linux and free software (#SUSE 5.1) Printing is all-userspace, lots of poor-student-desperate-to-print created drivers for cheapo printers ...