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Dear Red Hat...

July 14, 2023 1:15:00 72.27 MB Downloads: 0

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Let's talk!
(00:37) - An inflammatory enigma
(01:09) - Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
(07:35) - Red Hat's reasons
(08:49) - CentOS 8 / CentOS Stream
(10:01) - The rebuilders are here
(13:14) - Zero value leaches?
(15:43) - A matter of scale
(16:47) - Not the same Red Hat
(17:48) - Red Hat was the open company
(22:43) - Where the mess started
(24:05) - The big winner is Oracle?
(27:02) - Oracle: the open company?
(31:33) - Young Jerod finds Red Hat
(33:30) - Come back to the light side!
(35:57) - Walk it back?
(37:25) - Give us production ready
(40:33) - Open source pirates
(42:40) - Jeff's users
(45:39) - the freer the freer
(47:51) - The spirit of open source
(49:56) - We are hackers!
(51:04) - "We have to pay our people"
(52:37) - The future of open enterprise Linux
(54:30) - Jeff the tinkerer
(57:14) - Chokepoint capitalism
(59:22) - Rocky & Alma's options
(1:02:24) - Fight the EULA
(1:04:22) - Jeff's upcoming video
(1:07:48) - Future homelab episode?
(1:09:04) - No Unify?
(1:10:51) - Love hosting data
(1:11:33) - Jeff's unpop
(1:13:08) - The takeaway
(1:13:21) - Bye friends!
(1:14:01) - Coming up next