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>After all, why would anyone still use RedHat if their competetive advantage (i.e. open source) is lost? Who do you think finds that a competitive advantage? W
by that_guy_iain 3y ago
>After all, why would anyone still use RedHat if their competetive advantage (i.e. open source) is lost?
Who do you think finds that a competitive advantage? What company is saying "You know what, we can use Red Hat spend millions and worst case we just hire some devs to continue the work?" I doubt any are.
Their competitive is what support so many packages and companies can not worry about issues. Open source has no part in that.
- Tepix 3y agoIn my experience there are edge cases every now and then where a company needs a custom solution and achieves it by patching open source software. The RedHat support will fix issues, they will not add new features only you need.
- that_guy_iain 3y agoRealistically, if you need custom features to your linux distro, you wouldn't be paying for Red Hat, the moment you modify something your system becomes unsupportable and not in compliance and a whole bunch of other things that are the reason you pay for RHEL. If you're at the level of needing custom operating system modifications you're probably better suited to finding a distro you can fork. Not pay for RHEL.