What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

  • Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 year ago

    I don't think it's necessarily a good move but you're wrong hon several places, like:

    they are BOUND BY THE GPL to freely share and distribute that code.

    No they aren't. The GPL doesn't mention anything about price, and they're only forced to share source code with the people they distribute software to.

    They got it for free, they have to pass it on for free

    They have paid for plenty of oss code

    • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      310·
      1 year ago

      You're sadly mistaken. The very principle of Libre is sharing. Like sharing a recipe. You get it from someone for free, you can modify the recipe and you MUST pass it on.

      It's not sharing if you don't let anyone look at it. That's the "open source" part - the code must be open for anyone to see and download. That's the sharing part …

      Google "Richard Stallman Libre software"' and read everything he wrote to bring yourself up to speed.

      Linux is not just open source. It's MORE than that, it's LIBRE. Huge difference.