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Re:NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux by justsomehnguy on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:54AM (#36431403)
> installed Rocky Linux because it was easier, faster and cheaper than procuring RHEL licenses

Thanks, I almost spit my coffee.

Some years ago I read some docs on how exactly RHEL licensing works... guess the team which Oraclised MSFT in 2010 moved to RH.

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Re:NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux by tssva on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:01PM (#36434235)
The complications in getting a license that I was thinking of was those imposed by the government procurement process and not Redhat.
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Re:NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux by justsomehnguy on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:42PM (#36434891)
Yes, it's obvious, but in essence Rocky licensing is downloading an .iso and reading LICENSE.txt and comparinv this to anything RHEL related is what gave ne a chuckle
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