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.