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Why

Posted Jun 25, 2023 10:04 UTC (Sun) by tuna (guest, #44480)
In reply to: Why by NZheretic
Parent article: Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model

"Which, IMHO is a bigger risk to IBM's bottom line future profits from Red Hat. If the users of CentOS clones cannot access the same source then they will be forced to join together with upstream open source developers, vendors of all sorts & even antitrust authorities to force open equitable hardware vendor information access & create another single source distribution outside of the control of Red Hat & IBM."

Or they could just use CentOS Stream.

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Posted Jun 25, 2023 10:20 UTC (Sun) by NZheretic (guest, #409) [Link] (3 responses)

"Or they could just use CentOS Stream." - Not for the roles in which the CentOS clones has been deployed as a stable distribution.

Why

Posted Jun 25, 2023 13:50 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (2 responses)

CentOS Stream is pretty stable. Have you ever tried it?

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Posted Jun 25, 2023 14:31 UTC (Sun) by NZheretic (guest, #409) [Link] (1 responses)

Are you talking about stability in terms of reliability/uptime or the unchanging consistency of the ABIs/APIs of the packaged RPMs Libraries/RPCs etc?
Since it is both that has been offered by the finally released Red Hat Enterprise Linux & the CentOS ( pre-stream ) clones.

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Posted Jun 25, 2023 16:55 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

Both. ABI goes without saying actually because an ABI change would not make it past CI for those libraries where RHEL guarantees stability.