Seems like IBM is going to make RHEL closed source. What’s everyone’s opinion about the move? I feel RHEL is now the evil villain distro of the community.
That’s not how I understood it. I think saying “closed source” is kind of misleading.
They would have to rewrite most software if they wanted to make it closed source, otherwise they would be violating licenses
Interesting move. The vast majority of VFX studios use (or used) CentOS, Rocky and Red Hat. In fact it’s been recommended in the industry to adopt Rocky by 2024
Does this affect Fedora?
It doesn’t seem like it, RHEL is based on Fedora. Fedora is beta RHEL more or less. But Alma, Rocky and Scientific Linux will all be in trouble as they’re based on RHEL. Or at least that’s what I make of it
I had it backwards, I thought Fedora was based on RHEL.
that was centos before it got killed off
That is what I’m thinking of.
How will it be closed source, per GPL? Are they bundling in proprietary services that are required to make it run?
What are the implications of this move on fedora? I’ve been thinking of moving to fedora but I’m not so sure now
If i’m not mistaken I don’t think that Fedora will be affected because Fedora is upstream from RHEL. Now distros such as Alma, Rocky, and EuroLinux may be affected because they are downstream from RHEL. But I can be wrong.
So Red Hat benefits from the Fedora Project?
As others have said, RHEL is not going closed source. They are not violating the letter of the GPL (though IMO, certainly the spirit of it).
I think this is a crappy move by RedHat/IBM and I won’t excuse it, but I will say in their defense they are one of the largest contributors to open source. Everything from the kernel to Gnome and in between. It’s a massive step back from the company they were 5 years ago, though.
Well if they do go on to paywall it completely then yes my ditaste for RHEL will grow deeper than even Ubuntu
The privatization is spreading everywhere. Internet this days feels like the Far West after the end of the frontier expansion. Everything is “getting fenced” and tons of “small cities” are slowly dying out.
