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The Red Hat paywall
Red Hat announces source code of RHEL will only be available to paying customers, who can’t redistribute it.
Major organisations use RHEL clones like Rocky Linux. This announcement throws their future into doubt.
Red Hat stands out in the Linux world. Its development of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is based on open source software but customers have to pay subscriptions for use of programs, updates, security patches and technical support.