Profiting off of someone else's work without giving back is practically the definition of being a leech.

That's my thoughts anyway. The entire linux world seems to be heading the immutable direction.

Why would anyone be surprised when a cult leader is accused of sexual misconduct?

No image mode is not required. It is the immutable mode for RHEL. Using image builder and bootc to create and upgrade your images. Ostree is sort of like putting your entire OS in git. For an upgrade it checks out a new branch, updates that branch, then you have to reboot into that branch. That makes the upgrade atomic and gives you the ability to rollback. It's what Core OS uses and what the Fedora Atomic desktops use. It's a much bigger thing in RHEL 10 and I suspect will take over a lot of the duties of Satellite at some point.

I'm pretty sure Alma had a way to upgrade major releases. I know RHEL has Leapp, but it is always recommended to do a greenfield reinstall. Although with image mode and ostree that is changing.

Fair enough. No corporation deserves a tear. But still, fuck Rocky for being a leech on the community.

Buddy, I know IBM owns them. I also know that Red Hat is basically the only thing making IBM money. Look at the financials a little more closely.

I guess you consider the parts of open source that are contributed to be owned by the contributors?

What would that have to do with anything? That's not at all what I'm saying. I'm against companies that take an open source project to profit off of it without making any contributions to the community. CIQ and Canonical to a lesser extent. I have no issues with people like Red Hat, SUSE, Alma, etc...

So, you're okay with one company taking another company's work, contributing nothing to it themselves, then hiring company A's employees, and finally taking company A's customers? Not even Oracle was slimy enough to do that.

IBM does not bank roll Red Hat. Red Hat acts and reports independently of IBM.

I'm not saying they're to be trusted. But I'm saying they're not killing their golden goose for at least the near future. Red Hat still operates independently with their own CEO.

Because CIQ, the company that bankrolls Rocky, was poaching Red Hat customers. They were hiring Red Hat sales people, then using their contacts to swoop in and drastically undercut Red Hat because they don't do any engineering. It is an effort to stop leeches like CIQ/Rocky.

Fuck Rocky. They are a leech on open source. They break user agreements to get at Red Hat source and don't contribute upstream. Use Alma, they actually work with the community and contribute upstream.

No. Look at IBMs stock value history. There is a pretty clear point at which Remini stepped down and they really started to see the benefits of Red Hat. Nearly all IBM profit comes from Red Hat. They were drowning and their pivot to cloud was failing. With Red Hat they've been able to actually get a presence in the cloud with OpenShift.