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>1. Some customers used to buy one RHEL license and install 1,000 copies of RHEL. That loophole was closed years ago. It doesn't prevent using CentOS. It's not
by dralley 3y ago
>1. Some customers used to buy one RHEL license and install 1,000 copies of RHEL. That loophole was closed years ago. It doesn't prevent using CentOS.
It's not really closed, because you also have users buying one RHEL license and using 20,000 clone deployments, and then reporting any issues they see on clones against their one copy of RHEL, demanding customer support for dozens of issues against one RHEL license.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThat's exactly why RH does license audits and has for years. It doesn't explain the recent changes people find objectionable.
- cyberpunk 3y agoHave you ever been through one of those? How does it work? If a vendor turned up to my business and demanded access to my systems for some kind of audit I would tell them to go and fsck themselves, they wouldn't get past reception. How is it legal? Is it just an American thing?
- op00to 3y agoIt's legal and customary in every place Red Hat does business. Have you ever actually worked with an enterprise software vendor before? You signed an agreement with Red Hat to allow them full access to all your systems to audit usage. You will be in breach of contract, and you'll get to meet Red Hat's lawyers.
- dralley 3y agoThe point is, license audits suck for everyone and present their own kinds of reputational risks (e.g. Oracle), and making them less necessary by using other approaches towards the problem is rational from Red Hat's perspective
- lelanthran 3y agoIf you tell them that they could simply decide to never sell anything to you again, including support contracts for the upcoming year. I can guarantee that will hurt you more than it hurts them.