Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Red Hat Responds To The RHEL Source Code Drama" video.

  1. ​ @caron27 The reason to pay for RHEL was support--if you needed a mainframe set up to do a certain thing, they'd deploy and manage the solution for you so that you weren't utterly at the mercy of the weirdo in sub-basement six who built and maintains a custom stack that nobody understands and that breaks every time they go on vacation. What IBM's reacting to now is that companies aren't using mainframes any more--they're putting everything on VPCs and abstracting their code into microprocesses running in containers that don't care if they're running on RHEL, Ubuntu or Biebian. In that world, the people you're paying for support are AWS or Azure, not RedHat. This is a last, desperate grasp for profitability from RedHat, and all it's going to do is hasten their demise at the hands of their parent company.
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  2. ​ @zaneearldufour Bingo. Jeff Geerling has announced that he will no longer support RedHat in his purely volunteer open source projects because the number of installs you get with a free developer account isn't quite enough to be useful for contributing to Ansible
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  3. So I'm building a 128-node Beowulf cluster. Back in the day, I'd pay for one subscription to RHEL for the namenode and then install 127 copies of Cent on the workers. Now RHEL wants me to buy 128 licenses which is going to lead me to buying zero licenses, setting up my cluster with Ubuntu Pro (🤢) and training a few generations of scientific computing engineers to use deb-based distros. That's how you become irrelevant, IBM.
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  4. Mostly the winners today are AWS and Azure who will happily publish the source for their bespoke AMIs knowing that no one could or would want to use them outside their ecosystems.
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  5. ​​ @mindblow7617 The thing you have to remember is that the RedHat of today is not the RedHat who fought Ballmer, tooth and claw. That company was swallowed whole by IBM and has been slowly digested and turned into chyme. Don't simp for the orca that ate your favorite penguin.
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