Carlos O'Donell wrote:
On 6/26/23 18:47, Jeff Law wrote:
What Red Hat has done may be technically legal and perhaps good for its business. However, to me it's ethically unconscionable. Those who know me know I'm not an zealot, but I do have a baseline set of ethical values and Red Hat crossed that line.
Why is it ethically unconscionable? There is a lot of confusion around what has happened and why. What you are saying, and what actually happened don't line up in my mind :-)
Something I'm having trouble with is Red Hat's position that you can choose to be a customer or to exercise your rights under the GPL, but you cannot be both.
I don't know how to view that as anything other than sacrificing the spirit of F/OSS to help the books.
I am sympathetic to the odd/difficult nature of running a business based on F/OSS. Until now I thought Red Hat was doing it pretty well.
I thought Jeff's message was well written. I am still struggling with whether I should take the same path. :(