How Red Hat Divided the Open Source Community

[Sean Ewington]

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On June 21, Red Hat Vice President Mike McGrath revealed that Raleigh-based Red Hat, the world’s largest provider of open source software, would begin to reserve the source code of its flagship product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to paying customers only.

Free as in speech, not beer

[obermd]

I remember the open source community going beserk with this announcement, but they completely forgot that this simply means that Red Hat is no longer part of the community.