Free software doesn't care for competition. Free software that is malicious ought to be forked. There is nothing wrong with software integration. Stallman has absolutely no problem with Red Hat because they release their software under the GPL.
Red Hat is the source of the destruction of Linux
Zachary Nguyen
Nathan Foster
Stallman is not going to live forever. Red Hat could take over the organization owning the GPL liscense and change everything gpl3+ to be closed source software with no permission to redistribute. This is because the board of directors for GNU control changes to the liscense. What happens when that board becomes a (((board)))? (((They))) then change the liscense. While stallman is alive it will not happen without huge grassroots blowback.
Luis Mitchell
No, they could not. They could add an additional license. They could not replace GPLv3, only supplement it.
The usual license text is:
>you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
But even if they could, that's not Red Hat's style. They have bought proprietary products to release them as free software. They make things free even if they don't need to. I'm not really a fan of Red Hat but they're not as bad as you suggest.
Levi Ward
it all makes sense now
David Sanders
If you are a red-hat employee why did your fucking company let freedesktop.org go full retard by forcing the CoC (contributor covenant) on every project without asking anyone ?
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Since when uniting means having project under cultist rules ?
David Sanchez
>contributor-covenant.org
I didn't know it had gotten this bad.
Adrian Allen
That's not the problem. It's obvious every company/organization will try to make their projects according to their needs. However, GTK and GNOME are not Red Hat products, they just took over the project and reject everything that doesn't align with whatever they want it to be.
For example: there has been a lot of criticisms to Nautilus because they've removed a lot of features (including, but not limited to, universal keyboard shortcuts); yet they haven't addressed any of them. Same thing with the new, retarded, GTK release cycle and naming scheme.
Software integration gives Red Hat too much leverage over other distributions, kills competition and innovation and undermines GNU's goal of being a fully libre OS by forcing users and developers alike to work with or around their products.
Open Source software is all about competition, Red Hat is going to make GNU into a privative OS in everything but license.
Joseph Williams
Yeah, you really shouldn't use a distro either put out by or used as a beta testing platform for a corporation.
openSuSE, fedora, **buntu are no gos.
Hudson Rogers
I don't know if you're being sarcastic so here's the things.
The people who push CoCs do not care about computing.
They care about pushing their cultist political agenda and nothing else.
They don't care about people at all.
The creator of the Contributor covenant aka Coraline Ada Ehmke is a madman who persecutes people until they are fired from their job (or worse).
See this thread about that person:
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Want more data on that ?
Drupal:
Karoly Négyesi (chx) ousted from the Drupal community for having a bdsm fetish
web.archive.org
web.archive.org
Drupal leader who ask Torvalds to BTFO because he's not nice.
web.archive.org
--We are now looking forward to Linus Torvalds to be shown the door from the Linux project. He has long steered it abusively and has even been identified on mass media publications as a verbally insulting jerk. Him being a white male, the epitome of exclusivity, is just the cherry on top.--
Torvalds honeypot attempt:
esr.ibiblio.org
Freedesktop forces a CoC while not necessary
patchwork.kernel.org
patchwork.kernel.org
Coraline Ada Ehmke refuse to be judged by their own standards
github.com
Lambdaconf
esr.ibiblio.org
Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs
esr.ibiblio.org
CoC rejection in the NIM community
web.archive.org
There's also the ceo of mozilla who was purged from his own company, people banned on github for forking GPL projects, Francis rowe who tried to slander the FSF... and the lists never stops.
I hope you don't have people like this in Red-hat and you'll never have to work with them either.
In the community we are getting more and more angry about redhat either because they are forcing software in distributions or either because the design of the said software are an abomination.
But that's not the only thing to point out.
Anyway take care.
Robert Hill
Fedora is the only beta testing platform there. Ubuntu is Canonical's main product, they just release it for free; and OpenSUSE is just SUSE Linux Enterprise but maintained and supported by the community instead of SUSE.