Over the 30 years of its existence, Red Hat Inc. has cultivated a nice-guy image for its practice of releasing all the fruits of its software development efforts as open-source code for anyone to use.

When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional “rebuild” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its development build, Stream, CentOS suggested the strategy “removes ...

I'd been waiting for Oracle to throw its hat into the ring for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux source-code fight. I knew it was only a matter of time. On July 10, Oracle's Edward Screven, ...

Red Hat Inc. is betting that software development organizations will be willing to pay for the lessons it has learned over 30 years of working with open-source software at a time when software ...

The result? Oracle trash-talked Red Hat and vowed to maintain RHEL compatibility. The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation will use other methods to get RHEL code. SUSE, which had not been a RHEL ...

As a testament to the expanded use of open-source technology across all industries, 75% of application code bases use open-source code. This adoption is particularly prolific in the software supply ...

Software supply chain security for cloud-native applications requires months of effort for code to stay compliant to the organization's security practices. Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain ...

I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. Code running as written is not the same as ...

Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain is designed to remedy these needs by codifying Red Hat’s decades of experience in open source software supply chains into easily-integrated and easily-consumed ...

“I never thought I’d see the day Red Hat went closed source on us,” one tech commenter said. On June 21, Red Hat Vice President Mike McGrath made an announcement that split the open source software ...