riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, sorry for the noise, I'm just curious about the Debian community > opinions on the subjects more or less elaborated in these links: > > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes > > https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/ > > https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/ > > Issues, actors, philosophies, perspectives, etc.
Eighteen years ago I successfully argued at my company that the Red Hat revamp into "Enterprise Linux" meant that we were going to incur switching costs -- so we should switch to something with a better upgradability story. That something was Debian, which all of the sysadmins admitted to preferring at home anyway. I have not seen any reasons to reject that decision. It seems likely to me that IBM's threat to drop customers who redistribute their GPL'd packages is a GPL violation in itself. Lawyers will no doubt be involved. Many of the systems that Red Hat/IBM funded or adopted are systems that have caused me excess grief when they were brought into Debian. I hope that everybody actually using and developing these systems does well in the end. I have no fondness for corporations, especially IBM and Oracle. -dsr-