#linuxdrama — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, the classic saga of a techie who thinks their personal Linux odyssey is as gripping as a Netflix series. 🤦‍♂️ Somehow, in 2025, we're still pretending a frozen machine is a kernel bug's fault and not just an excuse to name-drop the "ultralow latency" #QuestDB. 🚀 Spoiler alert: the real #deadlock is between this writer's ego and reality. 🐢💥
https://questdb.com/blog/async-profiler-kernel-bug/ #techhumor #LinuxDrama #egoVsReality #HackerNews #ngated

Quoting Alan Cox [@etchedpixels] at Twitter:

>> Mike McGrath for Red Hat: “We will always send our code upstream and abide by the open source licenses our products use, which includes the GPL.”
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

Meanwhile:

>> Magnus Glantz of Red Hat: “I guess some people just still have not understood that free software (which open source originally was called), refers to free as in freedom, not free as in free beer, free labor or free money.”
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-rocky-linux-free-beer-magnus-glantz/

It's all puff pieces about fear and freeloading that are old Microsoft grade.

And it speaks to the point. IBMHat thinks it “sells Red Hat Linux”, no it sells support and services. The code isn't really theirs to sell.

(Not when it's “100% Open Source”. ~ed.)

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🐦: https://twitter.com/EtchedPixels/status/1673610472224899072 / https://nitter.net/EtchedPixels/status/1673610472224899072

#RedHat vs #RockyLinux #IBMHat #FOSSdrama #DistroDrama #LinuxDrama #SourceCodeGatekeeping