@geerlingguy I had to add to the thread just to say I feel ya! Your sentiment is exactly mine!
I still wouldn't say Oracle are good guys, but in this instance, yes
@mlippert @geerlingguy While #redhat may have completely bungled their message, having listened to some of their reasoning, it doesn't actually sound that anti- #opensource.
It sounds like they mainly want people to just use their upstream directly, instead of taking their curated release and having to strip out all the branding/etc. I think all that's added to #redhat is specific version pinning/testing and branding -- if that's the case, #oracle is just piling on misinformation.
@freelock @mlippert @geerlingguy
Red Hat add some code and Branding to the Linux kernel, makes RHEL. That's ok.
Alma/Rocky makes a RHEL flavour. That's not ok?
That's like taking free food from a public food bank, labelling it as your original product while not distributing it to those in need and then selling it for a profit instead.
I *had* a lot of respect for Red Hat.
@abhijit @mlippert @geerlingguy What I've heard is they want people to fork off CentOS Stream instead of RHEL -- and they're not adding any code to RHEL that isn't already in CentOS Stream.
In any case I don't have a horse in this race, I don't use RHEL and don't care that much -- and generally I don't like seeing IBM taking over RedHat, or any of the long term changes that we'll probably see as a result -- but I do think the reaction to this is a bit overblown.
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