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.

Show threadGraham Lee, D.PhilJun 29, 2023
@Migueldeicaza I literally just pulled that quote from the article into a private chat this morning. If companies have difficulty perpetuating their business models when freedom is preserved, why would I value preserving those companies over preserving software freedom?
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
@leeg it really irked me
Jun 29, 2023 at 10:30amIceCubesApp