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 – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Jeff: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
Jeff: Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jeff: I’m done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
Oracle coverage on Changelog News
Debian is cool
TechCrunch: Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Adam Jacob’s tweet
Red Hat’s June 21st blog post
Red Hat’s June 26th blog post
Oracle’s epic press release
Mike McGrath’s post clarifying use of the term ‘freeloaders’
Mike McGrath posting about ‘bad-faith action’
An analysis of the GPL issues with RHEL Business Model
SUSE’s fork press release
Rocky Linux’s response
The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer | LinkedIn
AlmaLinux’s response
Huge Open Source Drama - YouTube
LTX 2023

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