@jan Yes there is and I somewhat agree on simply rebadging....

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@jan Yes there is and I somewhat agree on simply rebadging. However, that is also largely part of the open source community and what licensing allows so again 🤷‍♂️

Often these downstreams are to simply get around paying licensing for support costs to get it free. So in a way, yeah these downstreams do become total freeloaders. And entirely depending on someone else’s work is such a bad business model to begin with.

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Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️

@gamingonlinux
What really does rub me the wrong way is all the corporate entities that I know which depend on caentos (back in the day), make a crapton of profit, yet refuse to buy a support license, give anything back to FOSS,... they just take, contributing nothing back.

Those should be weeded out.

27 Jun 2023 at 5:50 | Open on fedi.kcore.org

Alex

@gamingonlinux @jan

well, this can either be a response to Oracle Linux literally just taking RHEL downstream and repackaging it and reselling, or a response to NASA actually signing a contract with RockyLinux.

either way, they should come up with a way to limit corporate freeloading instead. they are annoyed that Oracle is using it without paying? restrict Oracle, not everyone else.

27 Jun 2023 at 8:30 | Open on fosstodon.org