July 13, 2023

Red Hat’s code restrictions draw mostly sympathetic response from open-source providers

Over the 30 years of its existence, Red Hat Inc. has cultivated a nice-guy image for its practice of releasing all the fruits of its software development efforts as open-source code for anyone to use. But over the past three weeks that image has taken a hit. Although the company’s action may be inconsistent with the spirit of open source, “it’s also been nearly 40 years since the GNU Project was founded and the world has changed in that time,” said Spencer Greene, general partner of venture capital firm TSVC Management LLC, referring to the free software movement that goes by the recursive acronym “GNU’s Not Unix.”

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July 13, 2023

Red Hat’s code restrictions draw mostly sympathetic response from open-source providers

Over the 30 years of its existence, Red Hat Inc. has cultivated a nice-guy image for its practice of releasing all the fruits of its software development efforts as open-source code for anyone to use. But over the past three weeks that image has taken a hit. Although the company’s action may be inconsistent with the spirit of open source, “it’s also been nearly 40 years since the GNU Project was founded and the world has changed in that time,” said Spencer Greene, general partner of venture capital firm TSVC Management LLC, referring to the free software movement that goes by the recursive acronym “GNU’s Not Unix.”

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