@REdOG

IBM: We poured money and resources into Linux before 99% of the business world had even heard of it. We helped make it great. Why shouldn't we require a return on that investment?

PLEASE UNDERSTAND, I think IBM/RH is bone-headed as heck and are now inexcusable violators of the GPL, and other licenses.

I knew they were going to *break* RH and make it something abominable.

But they *were* there at the very beginning of the 2000s, promoting Linux heavily. (Not altruistically, of course)

Who's surprised? IBM is owned 8% by Blackrock so this shouldn't surprise anybody.

Fuckkkk

Huge L for the community and for my cheap ass company that will likely be migrating away soon 😭

I know this isn't related but: Why do I see a completely different set of comments here when I'm logged in, as opposed to when I'm not?

Users looking to run an EL-like linux that pre-dates RedHat's derivation and meddling will want to look at PCLinuxOS .

Its pedigree is mageia, so Mandrake and Conectiva.

While it's got a horrifically bad PXE install, and while that means Vagrants and templates are ghetto and thin on the ground, it's otherwise a very fine OS with a wide compatibility range that RH couldn't even match with this AppStream bullshit (ohai, /etc/alternatives).

Fedora has a cult following. I remember leaving it because I had many issues with using it and how much effort it took to just make it works. I'm now on Arch via EndeavourOS and it's so smooth and enjoyable. Whenever I'd seek help or complain about something being broken on Fedora I'd get gaslight by its zealots. :/

The chatter around the water cooler at my office is that this may kill Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux (at least as downstream forks of RHEL). It will be very painful for companies that want RedHat support for their production systems but don't want to pay for RHEL licenses for developer test beds.

Idk it makes sense to me. Companies using your source and work to directly compete against you is bad. Forcing competitors to use upstream is an ok solve.