"If they wanted to have their cake and eat it too, they could have gone down this path," he says. "It comes back to that trust after the first centos death to centos stream." The second one happening so early in the cycle of Red Hat 9 is where it really grates against 'Red Hat' He adds: If I'm going to do something that can upset my community of users, maybe I should tell them about it first.
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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Featuring:
- Jeff Geerling – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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