Not surprised. A for-profit corporation wanting more money. Especially as we enroach further into late stage capitalism where corporations struggle to find more territory to profiteer from and squeeze more profit out of us.

The era of free services being profitable is ending rapidly, and we see this across many areas in the world.

I was wondering when Red Hat enshittification would began the moment IBM announced the acquisition. Turns out it begins today.

Jeff Geerling consistently has the most compatible, tested, updated, and well documented Ansible rolls out there. If I need to get some niche software installed and there is a geerlingguy role for it - I breathe a sigh of relief.

If he is considering stopping support for RedHat and it's various distros - that is massive.

Maybe IBM can hire the Reddit CEO when he is fired to head up Red Hat. Seems like a perfect fit

It's most probably IBM forcing it, but yeah it's dumb.

Ohh, let's see, pay for Redhat which will rot away without community support or use one of a dozen other distros. Sorry yum, it's been fun.

How is this supposed to work with GPL ? Because anyone owning a copy is free to redistribute sources

Yeah fuck this move. Seems incredibly short sighted and a huge fuck you to the community.

This is start of end RH.

Please don't fuck up my beloved fedora. Kind regards.

I am basically in the same boat, interacting with RHEL mostly because some of our customers insist on using it. It is already a giant pain with its tiny number of packages and the whole license tool struggles. At least so far we could build our internal tooling and the software we build for our customers on simple Centos or Alma Docker containers and use those for test systems as well. But now dealing with RHEL at all suddenly became an order of magnitude more painful, especially as others will also reduce support for it in their third party software we use.

Redhat: Yes, but also we are liars.

*sigh* Do I have to go abandon Fedora now too? I really hope they don't pull a CentOS on that one

I gave up on RedHat when they gave up on the community. I wish them well, but I'm never going to use or recommend RedHat again,

I'm not sure how confident I feel about Fedora's future lately.

sigh Time to go back to either openSUSE or Debian....

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.

While Jeff's support for ELs has been imperfect - I marveled at the supply-chain issues gleefully baked into the drupal vagrant stuff - I came here to really say:

IBM's not really the poster-child for preserving the sanctity of source code in the past (cough cough Monterey cough), and I'm surprised they're even suggesting everyone respect their own demands around that.

Wow what the hell, this is the first I'm hearing of this change. I use Rocky Linux for my server atm and I was thinking I liked it for server use quite a lot more than Fedora, but if they're going to do this then I'm going to have to jump ship unfortunately. Maybe I'll go back to Debian. Or even better, maybe I'll try using Devuan in a prod server setup for once?

I'm super not happy to have to jump ship again though when I JUST settled into something I'm comfortable with that works near perfectly well for my usecases, after multiple years of jumping around undecided.

E: Although I did just read that statement from the Rocky Linux team, and maybe it'll be fine? But I'm still gonna prepare to move just in case this fucks over the Rocky Linux ecosystem anyways

@REdOG

IBM: We poured money and resources into Linux before 99% of the business world had even heard of it. We helped make it great. Why shouldn't we require a return on that investment?

PLEASE UNDERSTAND, I think IBM/RH is bone-headed as heck and are now inexcusable violators of the GPL, and other licenses.

I knew they were going to *break* RH and make it something abominable.

But they *were* there at the very beginning of the 2000s, promoting Linux heavily. (Not altruistically, of course)