• Raphael@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    AlmaLinux also reaffirmed their commitment to being fully open-source and good open-source citizens.

    Thank you, AlmaLinux team. It is truly an unfortunate sight to see so many corpo-apologists in a Linux sub. You’re doing a beautiful work.

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      1 year ago

      If there’s anyone that hates what Red Hat has done here, it’s me, but what AlmaLinux is doing is exactly what Red Hat was aiming for according to their statement, which is that clones would use CentOS Stream as their upstream and develop and contribute their own patches instead of copying RHEL bug-for-bug. The other reason is of course to convert people that need that bug-for-bug clone to paying customers.

      With SUSE having announced a RHEL compatible alternative, I’m hoping that some people/businesses will consider switching their environment over to them as a more OSS friendly competitor that also offers support. If that distribution gains some traction, I foresee that some of the clones might use that as their upstream and that OEMs will follow suit and test their drivers on those distributions. There are enough people/businesses that are reliant on a mixture of RHEL and Alma/Rocky and for those life got a bit harder because of RHEL’s actions.

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        1 year ago

        With SUSE having announced a RHEL compatible alternative,

        Bummer. I know there’s a market for customers who want it, but I’d prefer to finally rip the bandaid off and just leave RHEL compatibility behind.