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Microaggressive Licensing [CL66]
Jul 11, 2023•44 min•Ep. 66
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Microaggressive Licensing
Episode: 66 Published: 7/11/2023
Red Hat Open Source Ex-Pat Causes Big Spat- Several prominent open-source people like Jeff Geerling have roundly denounced Red Hat���s latest licensing strategy
- The kernel was developed and is still maintained by Linus Torvalds
- GPLv2 license, which requires that derivative products made available to the public must also make their source code freely available on request
- JBoss, CoreOS, Gluster, and StackRox all have their source code freely available
- IBM spent $34B to acquire Red Hat
- Seriously, from 2012 to 2022, IBM had four, FOUR quarters of growth
- Revenue decreased every year from 2011 to 2020
- Red Hat conducted layoffs of about 4% of their workforce
- Community Enterprise Operating System Linux, commonly known as CentOS was a distribution of Linux based on the upstream of RHEL
- June of 2023 they made the decision to remove the public GitLab repos hosting the RHEL source code
- Mark McGrath, published a follow up blog post attempting to justify the change
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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