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.

This is Red Hat’s Reddit moment: how dare people other than us benefit from the free labor that we have packaged.

@Migueldeicaza in what way is it akin to Reddit? #Centos Stream is the upstream where #RHEL comes from. Most packages in RHEL are verbatim Centos content and a RHEL release can be traced to a tag or a commit in Centos.

Also #RedHat continues paying developers that contribute directly to upstream projects like #Gnome, #GTK, the #Linux #kernel... In what way is any of that akin to Reddit?

@itorres did you bother to read the screenshot?

@Migueldeicaza @itorres

Did you read _more_ than the screenshot? You're taking it out of context and misrepresentating both what Mike said and what Red Hat does.

@mattdm @itorres he said it - and it is posted on their corporate site. There is no ambiguity or misunderstanding- this had lawyers and PR review it.

@Migueldeicaza @itorres

Yet, you are taking it out of the context of the rest of the post, and adding words like "leech" β€” which isn't even there as a reasonable paraphrase of the words you did choose to focus on.

@mattdm @Migueldeicaza @itorres lol, are you seriously claiming it improves in the slightest with "context". it absolutely does not.
@davidgerard @mattdm @Migueldeicaza @itorres supposedly the word leech was used at least once on RHs internal communication to describe distros like Rocky and Alma.

In either case, this'll probably kill RHELs market share. A big part of its sales premise is indirectly that you could dev on (formerly) CentOS (and up to recently, Rocky/Alma) while prod (that needs the certifications) has the RHEL license.

Supposedly Rocky has been able to score a NASA contract already so who knows, it might become the new standard setter.

Downstream RHEL clones are key to RHs success. That said, it's no suprise when you realize it's owned by fucking IBM.
@glitch @davidgerard @mattdm @itorres I have no insider information. I was purely translating corporate/PR speak into English