but if cheesecake factory hired him and supported him to make this discovery, you would look at the menu differently.

Did RedHat say that? This is a pretty problematic statement so I would really love to see the exact text in which they set their position.

Did RedHat add that restriction? GPL requires source to be distributed along with binary, but the distributor can still decide who to distribute things to. If the only way to access binary is through being a paying customer, I don’t see why RedHat can’t say only paying customers can get access to source.

What’s the GPL violation in that, or did I misunderstand RedHat’s new policy?

The free as in freedom principle isn’t violated. GPL stands. So why all the rage? People call RedHat IBMified, what the hell does it even mean? Has IBM done anything to the community?

Really there is no principle being defended. People’s workflow isn’t even impacted as it stands, they just have to figure out new paths going forward.

Time won’t solve how people are. Most people will treat free as free of charge instead of freedom.

I don’t think he even consider people not right around him his employees.

You can’t. If you are on beehaw you need a beehaw account to respond.

But why do you need to be on beehaw? Is the community you want to look at not available to lemmy.world?

Don’t underestimate them. They do hold the most number of patents in solid state battery. They weren’t exactly sitting idle over the past few decades.

Haven’t done it myself, just missing a lot of the knowledge, but suspect just a regular PC is enough if you are hosting for a small group of people. I was thinking to just build an instance for myself to sub other communities.

Oh no you will be completely fine. Each instance is a different server. They practically encourage people to go to various instances to decrease the load on popular instances. Like, if you are good with this you might as well set up your own instance. It is the same set of communities you get access to anyway.

Is this a beehaw thing? Try a different instance?

No you and that guy both.