Within weeks the betas were ready, and soon after the full release was available to download. Two of those replacements, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux matured at lightning speeds. And almost as quickly as that was announced, several distributions were brought into being to serve as replacements.
It seems like only yesterday CentOS jumped the shark and landed in a stream that put it at odds with its entire user base.
However, users who set up accounts on the site (before it was taken down) were not given access to the code, which is in direct violation of the license, and the Trump organization continues to ignore requests for the source, though it has admitted that it used the code from Mastadon. As soon as the organization was made aware of the violation, the site was taken down. Turns out the site used code from the popular open-source Mastodon project and failed to release the code to the public.
Speaking of license violations, Donald Trump's beta of his rumored Truth Social platform was discovered to violate the AGPLv3 open-source license. Trump's Truth Social violates open-source license Clearly, Vizio has no idea how open source works. In effect, Vizio is saying anyone who purchases their SmartCast OS-powered TVs has no right to the source code or even make a request for the source code to the company or the court. To make matters worse, Vizio took this one step further and asked that the California court to agree that consumers not only have no right to ask to be supplied with source code but residents of the state have no right to ask the court to consider the question. Instead of rectifying the situation, Vizio filed a request to have the case removed from the California State Court. In turn, Vizio failed to release the source code (which puts them in breach of the GPL).
The Software Freedom Conservancy sued Vizio for abusing the GPL by using software like BusyBox, U-Boot, bash, gawk and tar within SmartCast OS. SEE: 40+ open source and Linux terms you need to know (TechRepublic Premium) Vizio lawsuit Let's take a stroll down Memory Lane to recall some of the more important moments within the realm of open source in 2021. Even so, it was a pretty amazing year for Linux and open source, one that should serve as a launching point for even greater things to come. The year 2021 won't go down as the year Linux finally conquered the desktop, although it did inch a bit closer to that reality, thanks to some incredible new distribution releases.