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NJ Noah J. Chelliah Founder of Altispeed Technologies, an IT consulting firm built around open source software.

“Here's the dirty little secret out loud. The people that are using Brave to get around your paywall aren't your customers. They never were and they never will be.”

Ask Noah Show · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · November 2026

“Here's the dirty little secret out loud. The people that are using Brave to get around your paywall aren't your customers. They never were and they never will be.” — Noah J. Chelliah, Ask Noah Show

Context

Chelliah was reacting to newspapers suing the Brave browser for bypassing paywalls and feeding content to AI. He grants the papers may be right on the law, but argues they are chasing people who were never going to pay.

Transcript

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Noah J. Chelliah

…denominator every time. So if you want to climb on your high horse and say, it's our content and this is how we fund journalism and my gosh, if you don't, okay, 100%, you're absolutely right. This is how you fund journalism. And absolutely, you own the content. And absolutely, you put a copyright on it. And absolutely, if you put a paywall, absolutely, you have the right to enforce it. But here's the dirty little secret out loud. The people that are using Brave to get around your paywall aren't your customers. They never were and they never will be. There isn't one human being on earth that would pay for a New York Times subscription, but isn't doing so because they have access through it to the Brave browser. The people that even know that these kinds of tools exist and go through the rigmarole to get them is because they were never going to pay you for that content to begin with. So my advice, if I woke up and woke up in the shoes of New…

Gunnar Hellekson

From the Linux Newswire newsroom, this is the week in review with JT.

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For the week of November 1st, 2026, here's the Linux and open source news. Squid Proxy 7.8 has been released. OpenShot 4.1 is out. The Enlightenment desktop has announced version 0.28. The Tor team has announced that version 16 of the Tor browser is now available. Firefox and Thunderbird 159 have…

Noah J. Chelliah

Gunnar Hellekson, he is the vice president and general manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And I guess this hour on the Ask Noah Show, can we start by asking you a little bit about what is the difference between RHEL AI and OpenShift AI?

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