On 08/16/2013 12:18 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
If you are asking for an opinion, I actually agree that they (Red Hat) should also give it away for free. However, nothing requires them to do so. Since they didn't, CentOS was created and fills that niche.
Hmm. In my opinion, Red Hat is doing the right thing. I learned long ago that customers fall into a quadrant of being high profit or low profit and low maintenance or high maintenance. It's always a good decision to drop the low profit and high maintenance customers.
By doing this, Red Hat keeps a good reputation since it can avoid dealing with users who are most likely to have a bad experience due to unrealistic expectations.
I'm just glad that they do provide the source code and that the folks behind CentOS do everything that they do!
Well, certainly there is nothing wrong with their decision and there are pros and cons to both approaches. I am also very happy they provide public sources.