On 12/16/20 11:10 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, R C wrote: >> >> On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> But the Red Hat-based ecosystem version of that second group is >>> on-topic, as the same sort of enthusiast exists here and has been >>> very vocal about this change. >> Well yes it is, but it started with a remark about licensing. I don't >> use Windows much, not even a handful of times in the last decade. >> Thing is that MS has something called their "Developers Network" >> (named something along those lines). If you're in higher education, >> R&D etc you can be in that network, in sortof an R&D category, for >> 'free'. ... > > > I have a whole shelf full of MSDN CDs and binders; it wasn't free, but > it wasn't terribly expensive either. In some cases the > activations/keys for the software expire after a few months. Still > have the last Windows 2000 Beta CD for the DEC Alpha architecture DEC remember that.. the other day I ran into a windows 95 box, I might even have an old drive with windows for work groups *lol* > here in that set. Something similar for RHEL beyond the > single-entitlement developer subscription would be cool. But all kidding aside; It would be cool to have an MSDN equivalent for RH for those that do a lot with RH, and that "take their work home and vice versa". That is what I use(d) Centos for, at home that is > > >> For example, I was messing with kubernetes in a few ways. redhat >> provides a license for RHEL, that you can use for that purpose for >> free, BUT you can have only have one license. > Yes, which makes it a bit difficult to mess around with kubernetes. > That particular case would be covered resonably well by CentOS Stream, > though, since the major part of kubernetes' behavior isn't going to > change radically within a point release cycle. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos