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The intersection of centos users and IBM customers is likely quite small. Even the tech teams inside large organizations aren’t IBM’s customer.
by josho 6y ago
The intersection of centos users and IBM customers is likely quite small.
Even the tech teams inside large organizations aren’t IBM’s customer.
- spijdar 6y agoWhile CentOS users might not represent that many IBM/RH customers, I suspect CentOS's availability has contributed to RHEL being so widely supported. If fewer people, even people who will never pay, use CentOS, then (potentially) fewer people will explicitly target RHEL/RPMs, and there's a weaker case for enterprises adoption RHEL over its competitors. CentOS led to people learning "how to use RHEL". While RH is going to try to bring developers and other non-commercial uses into free licenses, I'm not sure this will be enough.
- pjmlp 6y agoWe already did that with Fedora before CentOS existed.