The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Dear Red Hat... (Friends)

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Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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    • Featuring:

    • Jeff Geerling – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
    • Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • Jeff: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
    • Jeff: Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Jeff: I’m done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
    • The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
    • Oracle coverage on Changelog News
    • Debian is cool
    • TechCrunch: Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Adam Jacob’s tweet
    • Red Hat’s June 21st blog post
    • Red Hat’s June 26th blog post
    • Oracle’s epic press release
    • Mike McGrath’s post clarifying use of the term ‘freeloaders’
    • Mike McGrath posting about ‘bad-faith action’
    • An analysis of the GPL issues with RHEL Business Model
    • SUSE’s fork press release
    • Rocky Linux’s response
    • The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer | LinkedIn
    • AlmaLinux’s response
    • Huge Open Source Drama - YouTube
    • LTX 2023

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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