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The state of HN on nutrition discourse is completely screwed.
Either way however then you could either stop using it or fork the project.
Most Apple users don't even know what brew is, and I'd be willing to bet that most devs using Macs don't install it either.
Anyway, the larger point that gnome can't succeed because it doesn't offer "choice" is nonsense.
I agree that opt-in telemetry however is useless.
Thus, the only ethical and useful option is forced choice; i.e. present the user with two unselected options where a decision between them must be made.
This is e.g. how Apple designed its usage data option for the Apple TV, AFAIK. Two unselected options, given equal weight and styling etc.
Anyway, Red Hat's EULA doesn't restrict freedom 4. You asserted an alternative formulation where it does infringe to be equivalent.
I reject that equivalence assertion. Does that make it clear?
a) the non-commercial usage is restricted, so there's a reason to buy a commercial license, and
b) The copyright is assigned to a singular person or entity so there's no confusion as the recipient of money.
Sadly both of these things conflict with Open Source either definitionally ("no restrictions on use") or in spirit ("single copyright holder/CLA means no or an exploited community").
Yes, if the consequence of excercising freedom is death(or imprisonment) then you aren't actually free, because killing (or imprisonment) stops you from excercising freedom. Red Hat terminating your license does not stop you from excercising the freedom the GPL gives you.
Like, why do you care about RHEL at all in a way that isn't covered by CentOS Stream?
RHEL is for big business having bespoke applications; unless you need the stability nobody expects normal open source devs to make RHEL their testbed.
On one side your Red Hat:
- takes non commercial open source and does integration and sells support. Also contributes to a megaton of open source projects across all layers of Linux.
The other you have the rebuilds:
- take Red Hat's commercial but open source work
- does no integration work whatsoever, since RHEL's already done that
- trivial contributions to almost no open source projects that aren't only necessary for their position as a clone
- undercuts RHEL in support offering since they don't have to do practically anything themselves.
So yeah, RHEL is an excellent citizen of open source and the others are just parasitic freeloaders.