Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jun 29, 2023

Red Hat is happy to take your code and distribute it, first with minimal changes, and perhaps with more changes over time.

But if you do it, you are a leech.

Love that the Brodie here goes into gatekeeping what is considered a contribution:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

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@Migueldeicaza seems like a really weird hill to die on, given that the sorts of people who pay you money in open source are usually the ones who do so more to dot the i’s and cross the t’s on support than specifically what code they have access to. Why piss off the people who don’t do that anyway, but whose primary value is in the goodwill they generate? Especially as the code is still available anyway, just with more effort than before, if I understand correctly
Jun 29, 2023 at 8:53amWeb
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jun 29, 2023

@sinbad I suspect the answer is crass: the bonus of the entire group that passed this decision is tied to revenue growth and they can’t do that with OSS so they are pulling this.

It is a denial of service on the community. Like paying a 1,000 bill with cents.