👨🏽‍🚀 Welcome to the first Episode of "Tech Beats unplugged" Today's session is all about the thrilling "Open Source Debate - Part One." Joining us as a special guest is Erik Benner, the VP of Enterprise Transformation at Mythics .

Erik brings a wealth of experience to our discussion, having used and sold RedHat over the years but also expert in another enterprise Linux distro and helped customers manage their license and migrate when needed.

💡Together, we'll venture into the heart of the recent open source developments, that made a lot of noise igniting passionate debates among the OSS community. All that thanks to RedHat announcement to go closed source not so long ago.

Topics discussed:

1. (00:00) Introduction
2. Main Topic Teaser
3. (2:52) Explaining Linux OS Distribution like am 5 ?
4. (13:46) RedHat's Actions in the Last 3 Years
5. (18:52) Impact on the Community and why are they upset
6. (28:03) GPL and Legal Considerations
7. (39:29) Downstream Rebuilders and RedHat's Perspective

Show Notes

Although the most recent developments weren't completely covered in part 1 we decided to stay faithful to the chronology of events while keeping the episode under 50 minutes. Part 2 will cover the rest.

Links:

• Linux distribution 101 (foss) ⁠what-are-the-components-of-a-linux-distribution⁠
• Erik's blog ⁠centos-and-the-bomb-that-ibm-red-hat-dropped⁠
• Rehat's Magnus Glantz blog ⁠The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer⁠
• Jeff Geerling ⁠I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)⁠
• ⁠Mike McGrath⁠ - RH VP, Core Platforms - declarations : - ⁠reddit⁠ - ⁠redhat-Blog-response ⁠ - podcast: ⁠https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/343⁠

Open source definition and GPL:

• OSI definition ⁠The Open Source Definition⁠
• Jim wright ⁠Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Is This Open Source?⁠
• FOSSY ⁠Keynote, RHEL Panel Discussion — Friday 14 July 2023⁠