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Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software
- gmuslera 13y agoRed Hat main business is services, support, training, not software by itself. In the end, their product is their people. That a lot of business uses CentOS just grows his potential market And, btw, one of the factors of Microsoft dominance is copying their software too (along with forcing hardware vendors to include it by default, of course)
- WestCoastJustin 13y agoScientific Linux [1] is also a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) derivative and heavily used by government labs (i.e. Fermilab/CERN) and universities. Red hat makes lots of money off subscriptions and support, you might wonder why you would run RHEL when you could run CentOS/SL for free. Many software vendors like vmware/oracle/sybase will require you to run a "supported" operating system, so you would typically run RHEL on these types of boxes, which allows you to get support from vmware/oracle/sybase. [1] https://www.scientificlinux.org/ https://www.scientificlinux.org/