IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall

[Patrick Kennedy]

IBM Red Hat pushes non-paying customers further away in latest move. VMware users should take note as the Broadcom deal looms

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[BoredSysadmin]

Re: Broadcom buying Vmware case:
I think killing free ESXi, and maybe even the VMUG program - the impact on the industry would be limited, given the rapid rise in both alternative hypervisors and public clouds. No doubt Broadcom purchase would be a terrible outcome for existing VMWare customers, but higher prices won't become the only negative outcome of possible purchase, there I suspect the main issue would be (which is already fairly low) further stagnation in R&D and new functionality.
If anything I expect both Red Hat and VMWare would become less prevalent/popular partially due to such anti-consumer measures.

 

[Stephan]

Ever heard of that enthusiastic group of volunteers contributing their time, energy and patches to Oracle Linux? Me neither. IBM is on that path.

 

[BoredSysadmin]

Ever heard of that enthusiastic group of volunteers contributing their time, energy and patches to Oracle Linux? Me neither. IBM is on that path.

They aren't on the path; they are both feet deep in that forest You'd be crazy to contribute to RH/CentOS at this point for free.

 

[CyklonDX]

IBM after take over of RHEL did state, they want to compete with Windows.