The discussion about RHEL and the way RedHat/IBM does Open Source seem pretty weird these days.
There is a company that bought proprietary software and made it Open Source. The same company is THE major contributor across thousands of Open Source projects. Furthermore, this company is funding and sponsoring hundreds of projects.
Yet, some people see this company as „the evil“ and stating that they harm FOSS.
Is this reasonable?
Daniel Schier 🐧🍪 /
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2023-06-26 05:50:45
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