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0 pointsdlor2y ago0 comments

I'm not a lawyer, but that's definitely not their only recourse here.

Lawyers are not going to look at this coordinated attempt to subvert a EULA and say "oh well, nothing we can do here".

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> I'm not a lawyer, but that's definitely not their only recourse here.

Agreed - Rocky Linux probably has other options, but these seem like decent ones.

> Lawyers are not going to look at this coordinated attempt to subvert a EULA and say "oh well, nothing we can do here".

It does seem like Red Hat wants to subvert the GPL, but I'm not sure who would be suing them for doing so.

bubblethink2y ago

>Lawyers are not going to look at this coordinated attempt to subvert a EULA and say "oh well, nothing we can do here".

Once you get lawyers involved, you lose a lot of goodwill. At that point, who can tell RH apart from Oracle?

pipo2342y ago

Indeed, who can?

RH is still leading and sponsoring a lot of Linux development — that's the goodwill part. But maaaann, for quite a while RHEL has not been a very welcoming and inviting distro (unless you're the one checking the boxes on the corporate procurement form).

bonzini2y ago

What could be done to improve it (while keeping in mind that Red Hat needs $$$ to continue development)?

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