• X3I@lemmy.x3i.tech
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    1 year ago

    If I was a business customer of Rocky, I would not sleep well knowing what kind of sketchy backdoor way they use to keep their distro alive… Alma however seems to be doing it properly and they will actually create a benefit to the open source community this way.

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        1 year ago

        Because even if you pay them, RedHat won’t allow you exercising your GPL rights and redistributing the sources.

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      1 year ago

      they’re doing what they need to. it’s not sketchy. it’s not like they fired up a bittorrent search for ‘rhel sources’ and took the first results (ru, cn, probably) they found.

      but i’d rather they just blatantly subscribed to rhel, downloaded all the sources directly, stripped their branding out, packaged alma, and dared ibm to go after them.