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>>gnufx+(OP)
Red Hat has not fucking stopped making its source available. It's making it difficult for non-customers to get the source, and that is within their right. The GPL family of licenses do not state that (1) you're obliged to redistribute anything to anyone; or that (2) if you redistribute binaries to Party A, you're obliged to redistribute sources to Party B (let alone the entire public).

Red Hat's behavior is not any kind of loophole in FOSS licensing that's worth worrying about. It's just a shenanigan they are pulling because they think it will help them stay paid.

The loopholes worth fussing about are SaaS (peple having absolutely no control over the software because they are using someone else's installation remotely) and tivoization (locked down hardware preventing users from exercising their rights in regard to the FOSS operating system it runs)

>>kazina+Yj
in 1997/1998 I ran into GCC C++ bugs. the (for money) cygnus release had them fixed about a year before you got the fixes on ftp or public mailing lists or news groups.

I was a student with no income and I couldn't afford the pro version of the "free" compiler.

that was no fun at all.