9 Dec
2020
9 Dec
'20
9:26 a.m.
On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote:
A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people dumping CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration etc.
And worse: Without CentOS being used widely (junior) admins will have even less experience dealing with RHEL. This will result in lower quality deployments of RHEL, reducing overall security of those systems and it will reduce RHEL adoption, hitting RH/IBM where it hurts them most.
I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use Ubuntu on their personal systems and they hate having to deal with RHEL. And their opinions matter in the long run.
peter