[CentOS] How will fragmentation help Red Hat

Thu Jul 13 17:17:29 UTC 2023
Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>

On 2023-07-13 09:00, Tom Bishop wrote:
> as
> referenced by one of the many RH articles, we are all just freeloaders
> so we shouldn't be missed.


I don't believe there are any Red Hat articles that call user freeloaders.

I'm aware of one personal blog, not on the redhat.com site, in which the 
term "freeloader" is discussed as a term sometimes used informally by 
staff to describe large businesses that run production networks on a 
self-supported distribution, but issues that affect that production 
network are reported through a small number of support subscriptions.  
That's a very narrow use, and it's specifically organizations who abuse 
the support that Red Hat sells, by proxying production issues through 
RHEL systems.

And it's the behavior of individuals, not the position of the company.