I'm using Ubuntu Studio (for easy of use and all the fun stuff pre-installed) but I've found that Debian seems to be loosing tools over the years? Like, I used to have a really solid disc image tool that's just gone now, among others (and why is editing the Start Menu always such a pain in the ass?)
Is it different for Arch or is this just kind of the way it is for Linux?
Formally according to GPL they are obliged to share source code only to those who get their binaries. So no, there is no any violation as soon as they provide source code to their customers.
Thing is that they can't prohibit their customers to share that source code and many will do.
But it is not clear why anybody will want to use that source code. RH is known in opensource as a company that push very questionable solutions into Linux OS making it more complicated and less transparent for users. RH is a source of multiple scandals and discord in community, and really lost its aura of one of the leading Linux distribution long ago. For independent user other distributions are much better, and only enterprise business is interested in RH, mostly because of all that bureacracy like support contracts, shifting responsibility, promises of updates and so on.
There are enough Linux distributions around to not care about RH at all.
Thanks for that.
I'm using Ubuntu Studio (for easy of use and all the fun stuff pre-installed) but I've found that Debian seems to be loosing tools over the years? Like, I used to have a really solid disc image tool that's just gone now, among others (and why is editing the Start Menu always such a pain in the ass?)
Is it different for Arch or is this just kind of the way it is for Linux?
Disk image tool??
dd is all you need !!
:-)
Formally according to GPL they are obliged to share source code only to those who get their binaries. So no, there is no any violation as soon as they provide source code to their customers.
Thing is that they can't prohibit their customers to share that source code and many will do.
But it is not clear why anybody will want to use that source code. RH is known in opensource as a company that push very questionable solutions into Linux OS making it more complicated and less transparent for users. RH is a source of multiple scandals and discord in community, and really lost its aura of one of the leading Linux distribution long ago. For independent user other distributions are much better, and only enterprise business is interested in RH, mostly because of all that bureacracy like support contracts, shifting responsibility, promises of updates and so on.
There are enough Linux distributions around to not care about RH at all.
Why get worked up when there are so many other Linux distros?