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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (www.oracle.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The problem that I want to phrase here is, they redistribute the code, but when the problem arise, they open bug ticket in RH Bugzilla, then... asking red hat to fix it... which is.. unacceptable... and unprofessional, when they have billion dollars of contract on top of OL... So it's stealing in my term.

using red hat powerful brand, selling the code, and if it break, only open ticket, never invest in engineer to fix it... :/ If it's not stealing, I don't know what it is...

I know it's GPL and Open Source, and everyone can take it. And Red Hat Works still, open source in CentOS Stream repo.. so just fork it, and rebuild it... done... why they wine that Red Hat put code only for customer who pay for it... In the new contract, they only stop supporting customer, if Red Hat deems the code redistribution threaten red hat source of income.. so... I don't know..

GPL is about freedoom to write, contribute, inspect, and fix your own code, but not providing big chunk of code for free, and provide free support service...

That's what people always miss about... they want Red Hat guarantee of service and SLA, but don't want to spend a penny... small business, okay.. but CIQ and OL have billion dollar of contract, and never contribute anything upstream...

Alma/CloudLinux at least employ full time engineer in Fedora Project as part of join Red Hat and Alma Stewardship, but CIQ/Rocky, and OL isn't...