I’m honestly surprised it took Red Hat this long to do something like this. It really is a dreadful move even if they can do it.
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Fuck, I really hope this doesn't turn the tides for other Red Hat projects.
Not even my Linux distros can escape the enshittiness. WTF man.
I use Fedora, but I'm very uneasy with the fact that they are married to Red Hat. If things go south for Fedora, I hope a community driven fork can survive if not Fedora itself.
Not to mention CentOS stream is now essentially a fork of current code... total bummer. WTF.
It's ultimately because of capital. Capital controls resource allocation, so any project that requires resources will have to align with capital interests
What's to stop the CentOS-like distributions from each purchasing 1 copy of RHEL? Wouldn't that copy still be under GPL, with the software freedoms intact -They can then change and give away anything based on RHEL - they might have to strip out any artwork that is RHEL-specific but they have to do that anyway. Would Red Hat be able to stop them under GPL? Could Red Hat just refuse the sale?
Fuckkkk
Huge L for the community and for my cheap ass company that will likely be migrating away soon 😭
Well, I was already considering getting rid of my Fedora installs; this just cements that. I'm thinking Debian 12 for base, and then do nix for userland, like how FreeBSd does it.
Users looking to run an EL-like linux that pre-dates RedHat's derivation and meddling will want to look at PCLinuxOS .
Its pedigree is mageia, so Mandrake and Conectiva.
While it's got a horrifically bad PXE install, and while that means Vagrants and templates are ghetto and thin on the ground, it's otherwise a very fine OS with a wide compatibility range that RH couldn't even match with this AppStream bullshit (ohai, /etc/alternatives).
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Well that's annoying. I use Fedora for my desktop and rocky for homelab. This would essentially kill 2/3rds of my servers and remove a lot of application support for Fedora.
What may this cause to a casual fedora user?
Yes dumb. Also buffoons.