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by: Marco Moock - Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:04 UTC

Am 24.06.2023 um 20:41:47 Uhr schrieb Woozy Song:

> It will be available from customer portal, but with more restrictions.
> Stream source is still available, which is not quite the same.
> So others would have difficulty making a "bug for bug compatible"
> clone.

They make it much harder, but not impossible.

> So is IBM trying to stop Oracle or Rocky/Alma?

Yes.

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by: Auric__ - Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:36 UTC

Woozy Song wrote:

I'm curious to see what the FSF has to say about it, if anything.

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by: Woozy Song - Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:41 UTC

It will be available from customer portal, but with more restrictions.
Stream source is still available, which is not quite the same.
So others would have difficulty making a "bug for bug compatible" clone.
So is IBM trying to stop Oracle or Rocky/Alma?

Subject	Author
RHEL source no longer freely available	Woozy Song
Re: RHEL source no longer freely available	Marco Moock
Re: RHEL source no longer freely available	Auric__