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What do you guys think about this?

Red Hat does seem to be trying to move away from being an OpenSource product for awhile now, starting with the decision to move CentOS away from their stable release platform to the Fedora like Stream product, where it because a RHEL test bed. Which saw me move to Oracle Linux to run my web services off of.

http://www.catracing.org/hendrb/technic ... d-of-life/

Now RHEL has moved to stop providing the source code for RHEL 9, and make it payware.

See what "The Linux Experiment" has to say about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiTTihPxlqE

What are your thoughts. I am not sure how Red Hat can get away with using Linux tools that are under the GPL3 licensing system, though I guess the loophole is, they are sharing their source code, you just can not rebrand it, or redistribute it. The GPL3 code is what severally limited Apple what tools or BSD subsystems they could include with MacOS, since there are large portions of the OS Apple will not share (For obvious reasons). This is why they could no longer update SAMBA, and command line tools such as NANO and even BASH were woefully out of date.

With everything that is happening these days, it would not surprise me at all if Microsoft announced that they are making Windows open sourced now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is closing the source their OS...

There are reasons that I am laughing at how preposterous that would be, but then on the other hand. Microsoft is already the largest contributor of OpenSource software around.