CentOS - Jul 2023 - Current RHEL fragmentation landscape

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.

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.
>
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