Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
I spent a lot of time walking this weekend thinking about the reaction from our industry to my last blog post. We’ve been called evil; I was called an IBM exec who was installed to turn Red Hat closed source — and that’s only the “nice” stuff. So let’s clear things up.
Security and the Red Hat subscription
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