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Last weekend in Portland, Oregon, the Software Freedom Conservancy hosted a new conference called the Free and Open Source Software Yearly. And long-time free software activist Bradley M. Kuhn (currently a policy fellow/hacker-in-residence for the Software Freedom Conservancy) hosted a lively pane...

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

Red Hat continues its rather impressive string of decisions that have angered the Linux community, this time by passing on a security fix contributed by an AlmaLinux dev.

Oracle, SUSE, and Rocky Linux are all taking aggressive stances against Red Hats new rules for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux open-source code. AlmaLinux, however, is taking a more amicable approach.

While both Oracle and IBM maintain Linux distributions that are RHEL compatible, the philosophies they follow as open source stewards differ

An examination of what is wrong with the Enterprise Linux model and a recommendation for a middle ground.

AlmaLinux developers have announced a change in focus for the distro, abandoning efforts to remain 1:1 compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes via ZDNet: Id been waiting for Oracle to throw its hat into the ring for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux source-code fight. I knew it was only a matter of time. On July 10, Oracles Edward Screven, chief corporate architect, and Wim Coekaerts, head of Oracle...

Finesse, one of the leading digital transformation partners in the GCC, has partnered up with JetPatch, an ITOps company that provides end-to-end automated..

Database giant Oracle Corporation has joined the scrum of companies commenting on Red Hat's move to tighten its hold on the source code for its en...