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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by PeterZaitsev on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:41PM (#36422577)
Is not this something what Open Source exactly suppose to allow you to do ?

I have no love for Oracle but I would imagine one of the reasons Oracle embraced RedHat Enterprise Linux early on was the fact they could fork it if it was in their interest - this was tremendous value for RedHat for a time and helped its establishment as leading Linux for Enterprise.

Remember also what RedHat itself "stands on the shoulders of the giants" - there are a lot of packages which RedHat includes. Years ago when I worked at MySQL AB RedHat used to include MySQL packages, say they are covered by their "subscription" but have no revenue share with MySQL AB (as creators)

Note I'm not complaining I'm saying this is exactly how things upposed to work - MySQL got great value from being Open Source and allowing Linux distributions to include it (and make money on it) freely.

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by throwaway2037 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:43PM (#36427786) 

    MySQL got great value
Mindshare? Market share? Support contracts?
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