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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by akerl_ on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:52PM (#25851099)
I’m not sure I can agree with this concern. All Linux distros work by repackaging upstream code, the majority of which is written by volunteers. For Debian, they’re repackaging directly from upstream. Ubuntu repackages from Debian.

The value of going through a company is that you can choose to write a check to Canonical or RedHat and say “I’m hitting this issue with the software you repackaged, here is money, fix the problem”. There’s no similarly direct pay-to-win for Fedora or Debian. You can shop around for a consultancy or engineer and pay them to try to debug the issue, but they’re always going to be coming in as a 3rd party, which has an impact on the levers they can pull to resolve an issue.

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by jamiesonbecker on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:09PM (#25851299)
> You can shop around for a consultancy or engineer and pay them to try to debug the issue, but they’re always going to be coming in as a 3rd party

Except for software that was written in-house or the packaging itself, RH or Canonical would also always be coming in as a third party.

... whereas your consultant might be the original author of the upstream code.

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by symlinkk on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:43PM (#25852391)
Most Linux software is written by Red Hat. GNOME, Wayland, and systemd are all Red Hat projects. They are even a major contributor to the kernel itself.
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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by jamiesonbecker on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:05PM (#25852604)
> Most Linux software is written by Red Hat.. even a major contributor to the kernel itself.

Oh! I didn't realize Red Hat had hired RMS. :-/

Setting aside the controversial nature of those three specific projects (and the fact that this statement is demonstrably false), this statement demeans the contributions of thousands of coders, even from before Linux existed.

(let alone before Red Hat was a gleam on Bob Young's head.)

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by pabs3 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:06AM (#25855644)
There are consultancies that do that for Debian, the major ones have multiple engineers contributing to Debian and even more to upstream projects.

https://www.debian.org/consultants/

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Re:Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production envir... by nisa on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:27PM (#25851541)
It's not a concern but just an observation that things in universe in Ubuntu get rarely if at all backports. It's okay. I agree about having a company especially regarding timely security updates.
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