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Is Red Hat the New SCO?
SCO tried to make money from Linux by claiming to own part of it, and sued until it went bankrupt. Red Hat hasn't sued anyone. But its move to put RHEL's source behind a subscription agreement uses contracts to restrict…
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Red Hat vs. Debian
The two great lineages of Linux: one built by a company to sell support, one built by volunteers bound by a social contract. How RHEL and Debian actually differ in release cycles, packaging, security defaults, support…
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OPINION: A Betrayal of the Open Source Spirit
Red Hat built a billion-dollar business on other people's open source and on a promise that anyone could rebuild what it sold. Then it ended CentOS and put RHEL's source behind a subscription agreement. Two weeks after…