Red Hat Challenged Over Cloud-Software Policy
May 19, 2014
Grazed from WSJ. Author: Spencer E. Ante.
Red Hat is facing scrutiny from the open-source software community over a policy that some rivals and partners say discourages customers from using competing products. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Red Hat chose not to provide support for customers of its Linux operating system if they use rival versions of software called OpenStack, which is designed to run cloud-computing systems.
Red Hat says it would cost too much to support different versions of OpenStack, and that its cloud software needs to be tied tightly to its Linux distribution for technical reasons. The story inflamed some rivals, partners and customers at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, where nearly 5,000 technologists and developers gathered last week to discuss cloud computing and open source technology…
They say that Red Hat’s actions contradict the spirit of the open-source community, which advocates for software that interconnects with competing programs…
Read more from the source @ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/19/red-hat-challenged-over-assertions-about-cloud-software-policy/
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