The Importance of Open Source

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"I always picked MIT as well for two reasons. The first one was I just wanted as many people to benefit as possible and I just figured the freer, the freer." "You only really understand the philosophies of open source truly if you've been in the mix," he says. 'If you come through proprietary software and it is just a feature or those users who want freedom... then you have that perspective'

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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