[CentOS] How will fragmentation help Red Hat

Thu Jul 13 17:28:37 UTC 2023
Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 12:17 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2023-07-13 09:00, Tom Bishop wrote:
> > as
> > referenced by one of the many RH articles, we are all just freeloaders
> > so we shouldn't be missed.
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> I don't believe there are any Red Hat articles that call user freeloaders.
>
> I'm aware of one personal blog, not on the redhat.com site, in which the
> term "freeloader" is discussed as a term sometimes used informally by
> staff to describe large businesses that run production networks on a
> self-supported distribution, but issues that affect that production
> network are reported through a small number of support subscriptions.
> That's a very narrow use, and it's specifically organizations who abuse
> the support that Red Hat sells, by proxying production issues through
> RHEL systems.
>
> And it's the behavior of individuals, not the position of the company.
>
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Eh I beg to differ it's pretty clear that Magnus is calling folks
freeloaders...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-rocky-linux-free-beer-magnus-glantz/

But I know he is just a principal solution architect so I know it's just
his opinion, but no it's crystal clear where RH stands in regards to this ..

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