@luis_in_brief @mcc I think the best understanding...

@luis_in_brief @mcc I think the best understanding of the Red Hat issue is r0ml's "freedom from source code":

""" the largest Free Software business, Red Hat, has always had “freedom from source code” as its business model. A business pays Red Hat with the same licensing scheme as they would for any proprietary commercial operating system, in exchange for which Red Hat frees them from the inconvenience of needing to be exposed to the source code """

https://r0ml.medium.com/free-software-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed-6570c1d8218a

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Glyph

@luis_in_brief @mcc bonus, a lot of the "bad actor" stuff in that essay is even funnier in light of xz

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Farce Majeure

@glyph @luis_in_brief @mcc I think this is an interesting take, but ~wrongish in two ways. 1) probably the best understanding of how Red Hat conducts business is the parts of "Spacesuit" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262015202/spacesuit/ ) about sewing patterns as they relate to engineering drawings; 2) the customers' understanding of their relationship with source code varies quite a bit more than that.

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