I’ve had a busy week, so I didn’t have time until today to read this news about Red Hat locking down RHEL sources behind a Red Hat subscription.

I repeat the title: Red Hat, are you dumb?

When Red Hat decided to turn the community CentOS distribution into a leading-edge distro instead of basically “Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but free”, users like me were justifiably angered.

I don’t contribute to CentOS or Red Hat development much, if at all. But I have,