[CentOS] Current RHEL fragmentation landscape

Fri Jul 21 10:05:30 UTC 2023
Lee Thomas Stephen <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

Sorry for being too critical.
I hope we have a better understanding between us (customer and provider).

Thanks
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Lee

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 1:00 PM Lee Thomas Stephen <lee.iitb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I subscribe (pay) for a lot of things personally. Music, Movies, Anti
> Virus, VPN, Storage, etc.
> But for my business, I do not want to pay Red Hat, Zimbra, or Google Workspace.
> Why ?
> Because the general rule seems to be
> Oh! You are an individual, we will offer you affordable/free service
> What! You are a business, we will offer you extremely 'unaffordable' service.
> Because being a 'business' by default means you have a 'lot' of money to waste.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> ---
> Lee
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 5:43 AM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2023-07-20 04:36, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> > >
> > > my predict is that they will continue as a #rebuilder / #freeloader,
> > > writing software is a hard work.
> > > #offensive terms to the community :-), hide hat wrote it.
> >
> >
> > No, they didn't.
> >
> > That term was bandied about on social media by people who were
> > speculating about the reasoning behind discontinuing the practice of
> > debranding and publishing packages from RHEL minor releases.
> >
> > Mike McGrath responded to the use of that term by social media
> > personalities to explain that the only group that Red Hat (for better or
> > worse) considers freeloaders are large businesses who keep a small
> > number of licensed RHEL systems so that when they have problems in their
> > production network (which isn't running RHEL), they can reproduce the
> > problem on RHEL and ask Red Hat for support.  That practice is dishonest
> > and abusive.
> >
> > If you're not doing that specific thing, then Red Hat is not calling you
> > a freeloader.
> >
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