Microaggressive Licensing
Red Hat Open Source Ex-Pat Causes Big Spat
Several prominent open-source people like Jeff Geerling have roundly denounced Red Hat���s latest licensing strategyThe kernel was developed and is still maintained by Linus TorvaldsGPLv2 license, which requires that derivative products made available to the public must also make their source code freely available on requestJBoss, CoreOS, Gluster, and StackRox all have their source code freely availableIBM spent $34B to acquire Red HatSeriously, from 2012 to 2022, IBM had four, FOUR quarters of growthRevenue decreased every year from 2011 to 2020Red Hat conducted layoffs of about 4% of their workforceCommunity Enterprise Operating System Linux, commonly known as CentOS was a distribution of Linux based on the upstream of RHELJune of 2023 they made the decision to remove the public GitLab repos hosting the RHEL source codeMark McGrath, published a follow up blog post attempting to justify the changeIntro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022