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Following the usual playbook, IBM's Red Hat begins locking down access to it's "open source" (www.jeffgeerling.com)
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Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.

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[โ€“] strcrssd@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're (US) is in a growth cycle. This is a common thing -- the companies need to try to keep up with growth/markets, so squeeze people for more money. Reddit is doing it -- trying to IPO. Red Hat is doing it with this, though for me they've never been compelling or useful -- I'm shocked they've hung on this long. Their products in my (very limited) experience are mediocre.

[โ€“] psudo@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

You aren't Red Hat's target customer. Their target is a large corporation that not only wants to pay for official support, but often needs to thanks to regulations or the like.