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Red Hat paywall?! How the Raleigh giant divided the open source community.(www.newsobserver.com)

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SGH Fan@lemdro.id
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I flip the bird at the Red Hat building every time I pass it.

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andruid@lemmy.ml
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As a former RedHat advocate it sucks honestly, I have to find companies like Rancher and Suse that off truly FOSS products now. Like I want opensource devs to get paid if they are being depended on, but the RedHat paywall makes avoiding the vendor lock or trying to be cost flexible a legal land mine. They also offer more and more proprietary rebrands of FOSS projects that I fear will get EEEd as well.

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stella@lemm.ee
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Eh. Not sure why people would go with red hat over debian these days.

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