When it comes to Linux Distros, each are either managed by their community or by a company. With recent news, it becomes clearer than ever that those managed…

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      Developers of distributions that are similar to CentOS will have to pay a subscription to RedHat to access the open source code. This will lead to worse distros and uncertainty that could force users to switch to RedHats paid distro. It is legal, but a shitty move and against the idea of open source movement because it makes using others code for your own projects more difficult, and worsens collaboration.

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        I’m confused on how this is legal? Isn’t Linux based on a license that prevents them from doing that? I was under the understanding that was how CentOS came into being in the first place.

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            And that is dumb. Companies with any sense will veer to debian and distros that are going to be open with their own contributions because gasp - you can write code, put it out under gpl v2 or a permissive license and make money on the support contracts like they were doing.

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      Do you remember that football daddy bought to play with friends? Yea it was a nice ball right? Do you remember how everybody signed it during the years and it became a more valued ball because of that? Well the neighbours kid also wants a ball like that, but that fuking siko is getting none because the idea was from daddy and daddy does not want you or anybody to play with it and now daddy wants money if you even have the audacity to think about writing on a football.

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      RedHat is only going to provide source code to their paying customers. This is legally compliant with the GPL. This has made a lot of people mad because there are a lot of distros that are essentially copy/pasted Redhat code that people use.