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what has red had done that makes you say the law is meaningless to them?
@gi1242 The US government, not Red Hat themselves.
They literally wanted to close source as much as possible afaik.
But unsure if its true. Somethinf in that direction of fedora abd locking down was a thing. It rose a question on GPL if its really working or allowed, as they abused loopholes
They didn't want to close source it. Someone correct me but I think they wanted to put RHEL behind a Paywall.
Ah right, that was it