RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs

[CommunityMember]

Did anyone actually ask the Hyperscale folks before writing this article and assuming things?

Sadly, some of the "above the fold" articles here now seem to be about click-bait and the resulting advertising revenue. This is no longer the phoronix (that had technical, not political, nor hateful, nor entitled claims, discussions) that I originally joined and still sometimes participate in. Phoronix has not been immune from the X (the site formally known as twitter) move to what is now primarily about revenue, and not the facts (and the entire idea of safety and content moderation has long disappeared, but then again, Michael could never do that with a much larger team).

[Luke_Wolf]

Sadly, some of the "above the fold" articles here now seem to be about click-bait and the resulting advertising revenue. This is no longer the phoronix (that had technical, not political, nor hateful, nor entitled claims, discussions) that I originally joined and still sometimes participate in. Phoronix has not been immune from the X (the site formally known as twitter) move to what is now primarily about revenue, and not the facts (and the entire idea of safety and content moderation has long disappeared, but then again, Michael could never do that with a much larger team).

Lol, lmao even. You really are new here aren't you? Phoronix has always been a cesspit of clickbait and flame wars. However what sets it apart from all the other flaming dumpster fires like slashdot is that you don't just have the shit slinging retards, Phoronix is probably the #1 crossroads for real developers actually working on things, and it's also a lightly moderated free for all unlike plebbit. People love to shit on it but it is hands down the best tech news site and general tech forum on the internet bar none. Unlike most news sites Michael isn't a sellout and he values free speech enough to allow it on his forum.

[qarium]

Good for Red Hat!!!
They have invested a ton of money into building their brand, software and services and I see no reason to let anyone leech off their hard work.
From the point of view of everyone else, i don't see any reason to want to use RH sources other than to ride RH's coattails and benefit from RH's good name.
Use Fedora, Gentoo, Void, LFS, Debian, Slackware or FBSD and build your brand from there.
I think these guys are doing the right thing switching to Fedora, though i would much rather see them stand on their own feet and use LFS.
For the record, anytime you hear "special interest group" remember that it's just that, they do not have anyone's interests in mind other than their own, how can they benefit at someone else's expense.

the basic concept of open-source and free software is to "leech off their hard work"

any sane person is already on Fedora or Suse-Linux privat people more on fedora and companies who need commercial support are on Sude-linux now.

REDHAT is go down and they will not be successfull anymore. jusst keep in mind IBM POWER9 was 100% opensource and IBM POWER10 is no longer open-source. and all the peope did leave IBM already and did go to OpenPower-ISA-3.1 based SolidSilicon.com cpus who are 100% open-source.

https://www.solidsilicon.com/desktop/index.html

and of course:

https://redsemiconductor.com/

[cynic]

No, it's more like if you drive faster than 10mph they'll never sell you another car. You can do whatever you want with the current one, but don't expect to able to get a newer one or even "recall work" (ie: patches) for the existing one if you don't stay inside the lines.

yes, thanks! better metaphor!

[justinkb]

Still would like to see a legal test of this red hat policy

[mroche]

Sigh... Kmod SIG meeting notes from November:

Red Hat has informed us that they have identified a path forward which would allow the Kmods SIG to produce and distribute kmods built for RHEL again. This is quite new, hence technical details how this should be implemented are currently not available.

https://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/November/centos-meeting.2023-11-06-15.00.log.html

Cheers

[drakonas777]

Linux would not exist as it is today without Red Hat. Fact.

Linux would not exist as it is today without Intel. Fact.

Linux would not exist as it is today without Microsoft. Fact.

True. Also true:

Red Hat would not exist as it is today without Linux. Fact.

Intel would not exist as it is today without Linux. Fact. (Server/HPC/Datacenter market)

Microsoft would not exist as it is today without Linux. Fact. (Infrastructure)

It's a mutual benefit.

[jb.1234abcd]

Sadly, some of the "above the fold" articles here now seem to be about click-bait and the resulting advertising revenue. This is no longer the phoronix (that had technical, not political, nor hateful, nor entitled claims, discussions) that I originally joined and still sometimes participate in. Phoronix has not been immune from the X (the site formally known as twitter) move to what is now primarily about revenue, and not the facts (and the entire idea of safety and content moderation has long disappeared, but then again, Michael could never do that with a much larger team).

Relax Comrade Pinko of the managerial class !
You are the first I have seen here demanding that:
"Land Of The Free
Home Of The Brave
... some restrictions may apply ... void where prohibited."

[jaypatelani]

If community don't like corporate decisions they need to come up with GPLv3 kerneled OS.

[archkde]

It's not a surprise that they made Wayland for security reasons and now suddenly Wayland isn't secure enough so people now have to use Wayland and Portals. How long until WayPorts aren't good enough?

Portals don't exist because Wayland "isn't secure enough". They were originally developed in the Flatpak context for secure access to interfaces not related to windowing, and then people realized that's actually a good complement to Wayland (which is a windowing protocol) as well.