To be sure the dissolution of CentOS Linux indicates - at a minimum - major damage to Red Hats' positioning as a paragon of open source. It might even signal the end. It's a pretty clear sign that Red Hat is under new management.
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The Linux political wars have been percolating for a month now, and depending on what side you belong to, the decision by Red Hat to restrict source code distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is either a business decision that needed to happen or an act of betrayal. The operating system brouhaha began with
First came AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Then Oracle. Now SUSE is coming after Red Hat for changing the rules on RHEL source code. What s next? Microsoft RHEL!?