Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 21, 2023 18:35 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by jzb
Parent article: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

> Just because Alma and Rocky and others can quickly recompile the source code to RHEL should in no way delude people to think they can easily step in and do all the development that happens up to that point. People seem to handwave away all the work that leads up to that source code in the first place. Sophisticated isn't really the metric here: it's the ability to deliver an open source platform that's consumable by business at scale for a decade. Repeatedly.

Yeah. It's all very cargo-cult-ish.