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Is this the software equivalent of buying a generic drug? It's the same basic product but the details may make it work just as well or less well for any specifi
by brewdad 3y ago
Is this the software equivalent of buying a generic drug? It's the same basic product but the details may make it work just as well or less well for any specific user. If it works for NASA and they save money, it seems like a win.
- amusable3539 3y agoFrom the vendor side, it's more like the software equivalent of dropshipping. Slap your own label on something you didn't make and call it a day. If the original "manufacturer" goes under, you either pivot or fail too. From the consumer side, if you buy a dropshipped product you don't get the benefits of working with the manufacturer, and are risking worse customer service.
- mrweasel 3y agoNo quite, the generic drug makers can produce the product from scratch without the help of original manufacturer. Also RHEL is contentiously being developed, once a drug has been designed, there's no requirement to keep it updated (ruffly speaking). Rocky Linux is dependent on RedHat staying in business. The problem will only manifest itself if RedHats business is sufficiently underminded. Losing a few customers isn't an issue, and many of the users of Rocky Linux probably wasn't going to buy a RHEL licens anyway.