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IBM-owned open source vendor Red Hat initially rejected a patch for a vulnerability in iperf3 which was submitted by a developer of RHEL clone AlmaLinux, only agreeing to merge it after a lot of jaw.

Database giant Oracle Corporation has joined the scrum of companies commenting on Red Hat's move to tighten its hold on the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution, claiming it appeared to be driven by a desire to eliminate competitors.

German open source vendor SUSE has said it will invest more than US$10 million (A$14.97 million) to fork the publicly available source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and make it available to world+dog with no restrictions.

The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution.

Rocky Linux, a project set up by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer, has outlined what it says are ways to legally obtain source code for Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution, following that company's 21 June announcement about fresh curbs on access to the source.

Any time a company has to issue a "clarification" to an announcement it has made, it is generally intended to make what was an unpalatable change seem the opposite.

ANALYSIS Open source vendor Red Hat appears to have decided to make it more difficult for anyone to gain access to the source code for RHEL, its enterprise Linux distribution, from now on.

An attempt by long-time Red Hat employee Karsten Wade to mollify those who are upset over the killing of CentOS appears to have only made people angrier, judging by the responses to his post.