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. :(
--
Todd