[CentOS-devel] First round of RHEL programs announced

Mon Feb 1 11:30:00 UTC 2021
Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:54 AM Gena Makhomed <gmm at csdoc.com> wrote:
>
> On 29.01.2021 20:35, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> >> In the example above - Alice and Bob are employers of company,
> >> which are registered Individual Developer Subscriptions using
> >> corporate mail, for example, alice at example.com and bob at example.com
> >> example.com - domain and mail server owned by Example Corporation.
> >>
> >> Is such registration allowed?
> >>
> >> Is Alice and Bob allowed together use these 32 subscriptions
> >> for servers and VMs used in production for company purposes?
> >>
> >> And what changed if we have not 2 but 32 employers? 32 employers
> >> of company together can have 512 subscriptions for servers and VMs.
> >>
> >> And what changed if we have not 2 but 128 employers? 128 employers
> >> of company together can have 2048 subscriptions for servers and VMs.
> >>
> >> If Alise of Bob leaves the company - they email will be blocked,
> >> servers and VMs will be deregistered from Alise of Bob accounts
> >> before Alice and Bob fired from the company, and these servers
> >> and VMs anew will be registered to another employers of company.
> >>
> >> Such a scheme of work with subscriptions will work without problems
> >> or such scheme of work is forbidden and illegal? (on which reason?)
>
> > You should probably stop asking about this on this list. I suspect if
> > people really abused this in the way you're describing, it'll just go
> > away entirely. So, please don't abuse the nice things folks give to
> > the community. It'd be more productive to just ask Red Hat for
> > low-cost options for your business vertical.
>
> Why should Red Hat make any exceptions to the rules for me personally?
> In their place, I would establish the same rules of the game for all
> users, so I am not even going to ask them to make an exception
> to the rules for me personally.
>
> Do you remember the article
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel?
>
> Quote from there: "We're working on a variety of additional programs for
> other use cases, and plan to provide another update in mid-February."
>
> Perhaps Brian Exelbierd will be able to answer our questions on this
> list, if any, after additional programs from the Red Hat are announced.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>   Gena

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Lee