Sorry for being too critical. I hope we have a better understanding between us (customer and provider). Thanks --- Lee On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 1:00 PM Lee Thomas Stephen <lee.iitb at gmail.com> wrote: > > I subscribe (pay) for a lot of things personally. Music, Movies, Anti > Virus, VPN, Storage, etc. > But for my business, I do not want to pay Red Hat, Zimbra, or Google Workspace. > Why ? > Because the general rule seems to be > Oh! You are an individual, we will offer you affordable/free service > What! You are a business, we will offer you extremely 'unaffordable' service. > Because being a 'business' by default means you have a 'lot' of money to waste. > > Just my two cents. > > --- > Lee > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 5:43 AM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos