Quoting Alan Cox [@etchedpixels] at Twitter:

>> Mike McGrath for Red Hat: “We will always send our code upstream and abide by the open source licenses our products use, which includes the GPL.”
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

Meanwhile:

>> Magnus Glantz of Red Hat: “I guess some people just still have not understood that free software (which open source originally was called), refers to free as in freedom, not free as in free beer, free labor or free money.”
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-rocky-linux-free-beer-magnus-glantz/

It's all puff pieces about fear and freeloading that are old Microsoft grade.

And it speaks to the point. IBMHat thinks it “sells Red Hat Linux”, no it sells support and services. The code isn't really theirs to sell.

(Not when it's “100% Open Source”. ~ed.)

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#RedHat vs #RockyLinux #IBMHat #FOSSdrama #DistroDrama #LinuxDrama #SourceCodeGatekeeping

ElasticCo made Elasticsearch an #opencore product w/ basic security features in a proprietary plugin.

Search Guard made basic ES security features an open core product w/ enterprise auth as a proprietary plugin.

ElasticCo freed code for security plugin recently and now accuses Search Guard of copying both proprietary and #FOSS code. #fossdrama
https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users