Robin Edser :silverblue:
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@lasombra_br On brand for CiQ and Oracle, though I did think SuSE had grown since the Novell days... #unitedlinux again 😔🤦
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Just watched yet another youtube video from someone with a large following... about how #redhat "is unethical", "going closed source" and "abandoning the community" etc
My Garmin watch vibrated a minute later and told me "you seem stressed consider taking a moment to relax" 😔
Once again, if I feel like this I can't imagine what #redhatters are going through.
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@major painful to spectate as an outsider, never mind dealing with it directly, much love to all the #redhatters 🫶🏻
I really appreciated Mike's follow up. I respect him and Red Hat saying it like it is and drawing the line finally.
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"I have gotten attacked a lot."
@mairin @aeva It's so saddening to see and not okay 😔 I hate seeing the behaviour of so many whenever this happens.
Some of us really appreciate #redhat and the #redhatters and all you do.
I personally appreciate the work you did YEARS ago to get the RH iconset's made public! I had grand ideas about using them in beautiful diagrams and presentations but well, I'm not doing that many at work but one day! 🫶🏻
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https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes
Finally saying it like it is.
"I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit. This demand for RHEL code is disingenuous."
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End 2020 #redhat discontinued #centos. They'd given it a go but it wasn't working for them.
I appreciate RH for not abandoning the project and leaving it to it's fate, instead launching CentOS Stream.
They communicated it all poorly, CS8 was a bit of a mess for a long time being upended mid life cycle, but today we have #rhel engineers working in the open, and a free enterprise class distro that's as close to RHEL as to make no difference for most use cases.
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In 2014 the #centos project was struggling. CentOS was built by only a handful of people who were doing it on their own with no corporate sponsor. CentOS 6.0 was released 242 days AFTER #rhel and CentOS 6.1 a whopping 204 days after.
I appreciate that #redhat offered the key members employment, provided some sponsorship of the project and tried (for 7Y) to turn it into a positive for both RH and the community.
In 2014 CentOS 7.0 was only 27 days behind RHEL.
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Things I appreciate about #redhat
In 2008 #redhat bought a company called Qumranet (they'd just had a little thing called KVM merged into the #linux kernel the year before). They also had some proprietary products. RH open sourced it all and sponsored a number of related projects. I appreciate RH for their role in #kvm #spice #ovirt #libvirt #virtmanager and saving us from having to choose between Citrix Xen and VMWare.