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RHEL is 800 per server. If you have hundreds of these servers, you could pay a developer 80k to sit around learning kernel development on the offhand chance thi
by jldugger 11y ago
RHEL is 800 per server. If you have hundreds of these servers, you could pay a developer 80k to sit around learning kernel development on the offhand chance this comes up.
- jon-wood 11y agoYou could, but that's going to be the unloaded cost of a developer, add another 80k for benefits, tax, and everything else that comes with an employee. Even after that you've got a single kernel developer who might have learnt enough about the particular part of the kernel you're having problems with. Assuming its the kernel. Either that, or pay 80k to Red Hat, who have dozens of kernel developers one of whom probably knows about your issue, and if it turns out not to be the kernel probably have someone on staff that can investigate that as well. Worst case they know who to contact upstream to dig deeper into your issue.
- rwmj 11y agoAnd the good thing is that companies are free to do that. Take Google, for example. They don't pay Red Hat because they have the code and they have amazingly smart kernel developers. But that's (surprisingly) still good for Red Hat, since Red Hat benefits from the contributions to the kernel that Google makes. It's good for all users of Linux.