Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by pelasaco on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:20AM
(#36691034)
One scenario that I can imagine, is for development environment. People had CentOS as dev environment and deployed RHEL. Or ran CentOS guests on RHEL hosts (VM or Docker)
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by ZeroSolstice on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @07:10PM
(#36702913)
Thats a good point. Looks like RedHat considered this and offer free company/professional developer RHEL images for non-production use[1]. In 2021 they allowed zero-cost licensing for individuals[2].
[1] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05/10/access-rhe... [2] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
It seems very silly for people to be getting upset now that a free OS hasn't taken their business considerations to heart. Unless of course you were going for the model of charging everyone enterprise rates for your devices/software/work/etc and pocketing what you would have to normally pay in enterprise licensing because its a "community" OS, which everyone is free to do, but these are the risks that come with that.