The Linux political wars have been percolating for a month now, and depending on what side you belong to, the decision by Red Hat to restrict source code distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is either a business decision that needed to happen or an act of betrayal. The operating system brouhaha began with
First came AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Then Oracle. Now SUSE is coming after Red Hat for changing the rules on RHEL source code. What s next? Microsoft RHEL!?
The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux dist.