This article was originally published primarily as a response
to IBM's
Red Hat's change to no longer publish complete, corresponding source
(CCS) for RHEL and the
prior discontinuation of CentOS Linux (which are related events, as
described below). We hope that this will serve as a comprehensive
document that discusses the history of Red Hat's RHEL business model,
the related source code provisioning, and the GPL compliance issues with RHEL.
They have huge corporate subscribers who are willingly funding open source support and development, but since their purpose now is a profit center, they have to kill the goose that laid their golden egg.
Maximizing revenue growth must be paramount - at the cost of everything else, including the foundation that the company was built on.
Hopefully Red Hat will follow Reddit into the dustbin of irrelevancy.
They have huge corporate subscribers who are willingly funding open source support and development, but since their purpose now is a profit center, they have to kill the goose that laid their golden egg.
Maximizing revenue growth must be paramount - at the cost of everything else, including the foundation that the company was built on.
Hopefully Red Hat will follow Reddit into the dustbin of irrelevancy.