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Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations

jeffgeerling.com published 2021-01-286 min read

I've worked in open source my entire career1. To say that I'm worried about the impact recent events have on the open source ecosystem would be an understatement. In the past couple months: Red Hat effectively killed CentOS Elastic effectively killed Elasticsearch People may rightfully refute these statements, but the…

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