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geerlingguy

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Father, author, developer, maker. Sometimes called "an inflammatory enigma". #stl #drupal #ansible #k8s #raspberrypi #mac #crohns

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mglaman, to random
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I love how I gave myself a "Ready to publish" moderation state for my blog, assuming my future self would somehow have more than one blog ready to publish at any given time.

And not ad-hoc write them the day before or the morning of my weekly publication.

geerlingguy,
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@mglaman Haha I did that a while on my Trello board, then I realized I would just have a bunch of things in progress, and then now and again I'd finish one and publish it.

So now I just have 'Drafts' and 'Publish' (publish being the column it goes into when I'm finishing it up and have a day to publish it).

geerlingguy, to RedHat
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Red Hat's response: https://redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

So... it was all about the "freeloaders". Can people stop telling me that this whole thing wasn't about freeloaders now?

geerlingguy,
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Red Hat: those who use open source code and don't contribute back are "a real threat to open source companies everywhere"

I call them: users.

I fight for the users.

geerlingguy,
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@charadon It means IBM has been pressuring Red Hat to change it's corporate culture from the get-go.

And it sounds like the cracks that were forming a few years ago have opened up.

vwbusguy, (edited ) to RedHat
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@geerlingguy did a great job here in expressing what's going on with and right now from an contributor perspective.

https://youtu.be/kF5pyVUQBH8

geerlingguy,
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@asmodai Yeah I've noticed that whole "community version is not good" thing from some less informed sales reps from time to time. Especially outside NA.

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@asmodai I'm fairly certain (I only worked with engineering side, not sales) that some in the sales org would give some less informed talking points to the reps, and the reps honestly didn't know enough about the way the OSS code was structured to know the difference 🤦‍♂️

(I don't blame the reps in that case, many of them had never worked in an company. I blame the trainers and managers who didn't teach them well)

geerlingguy, to random
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geerlingguy,
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@pinhman I started with Red Hat 5.2 on a CD I bought in the Red Hat guide book at CompUSA in 1998!

geerlingguy,
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@rsilvie @rileyio @jan Until the next round of budget cuts... :(

geerlingguy,
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@RL_Dane The major issue with GitHub is they're kinda a monopoly, GitLab still might have a long-term shot, but it's hard to not be on GitHub outside of orgs that are big enough to have their own massive name recognition.

geerlingguy,
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@locasta Salt is the one people like to bring up, but IMO not a good replacement. (But not terrible).

geerlingguy,
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@nicu trying to extract value to boost revenue. I'm guessing other ways of getting cash are difficult to come by right now.

geerlingguy, to RedHat
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Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. US Eastern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5pyVUQBH8

geerlingguy, to random
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geerlingguy,
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@pezhore Pretty sure they're thinking 🤑

geerlingguy, to random
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Red Hat is not in violation of GPL if they put their source code behind a paywall.

They are in violation of community trust and decades of precedent.

AlanSill, to random
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At the risk of fanning some flames currently roaring around the RH/CentOS-compatible distribution world:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb

(But @geerlingguy is being way more polite in this piece than I'd like to be.)

geerlingguy,
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@AlanSill believe me, my blood is boiling. That post was edited. A lot.

vwbusguy, (edited ) to random
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"Red Hat announces RHEL10 sources will only be available to internal engineers under strict NDA, claiming that this is actually better for the downstream open source community."

geerlingguy,
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@vwbusguy hahaha

geerlingguy, to random
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Dear Red Hat:

are you dumb?

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

I am seriously considering dropping support for all RHEL/Fedora on all my Ansible work.

geerlingguy,
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geerlingguy,
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@alextomkins I know someone who maintains a lot of popular Ansible roles that might drop RHEL support...

geerlingguy,
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@maxgot 98% of the time, Stream would suffice. But that's not good enough, especially considering I don't run RHEL in production so I rely on test environments that match as close as possible.

geerlingguy,
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@peotr26 @AudraTran Long-term, if there is continued attrition from RHEL, Fedora will suffer too. Short term no difference.

geerlingguy,
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@maxgot Stream is not a replacement for RHEL infra testing, though.

My blog post outlines the rest of my thoughts on the matter: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb

geerlingguy,
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@orowith2os @peotr26 @AudraTran I'm explicitly still supporting Fedora, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux. Just dropping support for RHEL.

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