CentOS - Dec 2020 - What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

On 12/15/20 11:15 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 12/15/20 5:58 PM, R C wrote:
>> When was the last time a large company (think IBM, Sun, Novell Netware,
>> Oracle) had a great idea to create or take over an OS, or a community
>> only ending up in a situation that only almost killed them. (Yeah MS,
>> but they figured out that giving it away for next to nothing for
>> residential/educational use is actually securing their market share in
>> commercial/government/Education etc etc etc.)
> 10-15 years ago BSA sued a person using pirated Windows (and Office?) at
> home. Microsoft representative was a witness AGAINST BSA, so that there
> is no precedent that private users of pirated software can be sued,
> because out of fear majority of those using pirated software would stop
> installing and using MS software and they would recommend software of
> competition (free if possible).
>
> If MS did not "fail to implement" effective protection from
pirating
> Windows and Office, their market share would be at least halved, and in
> countries with low income they would barely exist.
>
What I meant was that MS basically, for the longest while, had their OS 
pre-installed on computers sold, so it "felt" free to the buyer, it
came
with the machine. Universities and colleges did receive bulk licenses 
and .NET pretty much for free in their 'Developer Programs' and also 
have students keep using it. That "faillure to implement" obviously
was
a marketing move indeed, as was students "allowing" to keep using it
on
their laptops after graduation.

On 12/15/20 1:24 PM, R C wrote:
> What I meant was that MS basically, for the longest while, had their 
> OS pre-installed on computers sold, so it "felt" free to the
buyer, it
> came with the machine. Universities and colleges did receive bulk 
> licenses and .NET pretty much for free in their 'Developer
Programs'
> and also have students keep using it. That "faillure to
implement"
> obviously was a marketing move indeed, as was students "allowing"
to
> keep using it on their laptops after graduation. 
This is way off-topic, but there are two aspects of home users using 
unlicensed copies of Windows:
1.) Users who bought a machine with Windows Home Edition on it who 
wanted either Professional or Ultimate;
2.) The enthusiasts who were building their own machines from parts.? 
That group is small, but they also tend to be very vocal; IT 
professionals often fall into this group, and MS wanted to keep them 
happy for all the reasons previously posted.

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.