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Red Hat never indicated that they had any trouble with CentOS, rather the opposite; their disposition towards it has always been very positive until recently. I
by mort96 3y ago
Red Hat never indicated that they had any trouble with CentOS, rather the opposite; their disposition towards it has always been very positive until recently. It would have been like using Ubuntu Server and worrying that Canonical might kill it off and force you to buy Ubuntu Pro; not completely out of the question, but also not something you would expect.
- housemusicfan 3y agoThat's because CentOS didn't meaningfully cut into their major business which is support. Anyone running CentOS outside of a lab setting understood they were on the hook for their own support. Most CentOS users were never going to be paying RHEL customers. You can't lose what you didn't have to begin with. Along came Oracle which is taking big customers and literal bags of money away from RH's core business by reselling a warmed over version of their own product at a lower cost.
- mort96 3y agoWell apparently CentOS somehow became a big enough problem for Red Hat for them to kill it off...