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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 Hat's 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