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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only a handful of partners get to access the supposedly “open” standard which Google has co-opted.

This is why God invented GPL. With GPL, you don't get to do that.

For example, right now, IBM is in the process of learning very hard lessons why they don't get to do that.

[–] SomeSphinx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you explain more about IBM? I'm not as tech literate and I've been barely keeping up with the conversations about federation and EEE, what's going on with IBM?

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

IBM bought RedHat, and recently decided to take ther code repos for RedHat Enterprise Linux semiprivate. They still have to offer the source code to people they give the compiled product to, but they don't have to give it publically, even though it is open source. Their claim is that they didn't like others profiting off their work by rebuilding the source an selling it. Of course RedHat seems to now be ignoring the rather large amount of open source code they didn't write that they are selling, like the Linux kernel.