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Re:Keeping Open Source Open by musicale on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:32PM (#36530208)
> making it obvious ...that no one gives a flying f*k about "free as in freedom" because all the uprising was always about either the free beer

Indeed - Red Hat is making it obvious that IBM (like most large companies) views open source as free beer - or rather free labor.

It's great when they get other people's labor for free, as long as they don't have to give away any of their own.

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Re:Keeping Open Source Open by solarengineer on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:38AM (#36532105)
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Re:Keeping Open Source Open by geerlingguy on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:37AM (#36533789)
I've seen plenty of posts on Twitter, Medium, on the Fedora mailing list, and elsewhere by individual contributors and industry veterans (some of whom had storied careers at Red Hat) who are not happy with Red Hat's decision.
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Re:Keeping Open Source Open by pjmlp on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:28AM (#36532352)
Lots of free beer in Linux exist because Red-Hat and IBM made it happen in first place.

As did some of the other beloved giants over here.

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