I am a big proponent of the open source software philosophy but since I am no developer my contributions to open source comes in the form of usage, testing and promotion. In my mind it is one of many ways to combat the restrictive Enterprise solutions (which usually leans heavily on OSS anyway). There is …
Revisiting the thing about CentOS 8
So during this year Redhat (IBM) has figured they should further complicate their relationship with their community. This time it is not actually about CentOS directly but rather an attempt to prevent the likes of Alma/Rocky/Oracle to use their sources as a way to repackage as their own. The way they opted to go was …
I am Free!
I daily come in contact with the notion that a Linux system may not compete with a similar function or system that is closed-source. But is this notion of free software really true? Many believe that since it is world-readable text this application is nothing more to think of then the pot-smoking hippie that wrote …
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