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Rocky wants to continue getting RHEL sources via public cloud instances and/or via UBI container images (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by kwozyman@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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While I disagree with Red Hat's decision to hinder source access, this move from Rocky (a commercial company!) seems even more disingenuous, imho.

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[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem with Rocky is that they also stand to make money out of the same source code which is the disingenuous part, in my opinion.

If only Red Had didn't kill CentOS, they won't have this problem now. But noooo. Their IBM overlord demand more revenue, so they killed CentOS to force their users to buy RHEL licenses which increase their short term profits. By killing CentOS, they created a vacuum that's now filled by Rocky, Alma and Oracle Linux. Red Hat see them as eating their lunch, so they double down on making stupid decision again.

I'm sure their decision to make accessing RHEL source code harder will backfire again within a few years and Red Had will make an even dumber move again.