Red Hat’s Mike McGrath (VP of Core Platforms Engineering) responds to the backlash from closing RHEL public source code access
Red Hat’s Mike McGrath (VP of Core Platforms Engineering) responds to the backlash from closing RHEL public source code access
Due to my lack of strict knowledge, I take it that there is a difference of opinion on whether RedHat violates the GPL in this case, and also that the outcome of the lawsuit and the market reaction is necessary in this regard.
In any case, I hope that all the engineers who contribute to the daily evolution of RHEL at RedHat are well compensated and that more of them will be happy in the future.
I don’t think there is a difference of opinion? RedHat only offering source code to paying customers (and devs) is completely legal and in line with the GPL license. But maybe there’s something more to it that I missed.
I believe the grey area is whether they can cancel people’s subscriptions for redistributing the source code.
Redhat spends more money on salesmen than it spends on engineers, by far, like 2/1.