[CentOS-devel] Balancing the needs around the RHEL platform

Wed Dec 30 22:26:16 UTC 2020
Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>

On 12/30/20 1:23 AM, Laurențiu Păncescu wrote:
> An HFT algorithm losing 2% of transactions for several months would be 
> a major issue, and worse things can happen in critical applications in 
> medical, military or heavy industry


The existence of applications that require a static ABI for extended 
periods of time is not an argument for the existence of CentOS, because 
those applications also require *support*.  That's something that RHEL 
provides.

Why would anyone recommend that medical, military, or heavy industry use 
a self-supported OS?