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"Red Hat was attempting to keep their product from the open-source homebrew market " Nothing would make Red Hat happier than having every hacker under the sun
by ghshephard 13y ago
"Red Hat was attempting to keep their product from the open-source homebrew market "
Nothing would make Red Hat happier than having every hacker under the sun using Red Hat - what they were attempting to do was keep the enterprise customers, who were currently paying $1000+/CPU (or so) go with a free alternative and kill their company.
Simply removing three things allowed them to do that: (1) No RHN/Up2Date available for Centos, (2) No Support, (3) Most importantly, absolutely no mention or reference to "Redhat" Trademarks.
Centos had everything else.
- nitrogen 13y ago(3) Most importantly, absolutely no mention or reference to "Redhat" Trademarks. This is evil, because the law is supposed to allow referential use of trademarks as a fair use. Otherwise, RedHat's existence is highly beneficial to Linux.
- blueskin_ 13y agoThat's a self-imposed policy on CentOS' side, not something they were forced to do.
- tedchs 13y agoYes, and the other big advantage of RHEL in enterprisey environments is their compatibility certifications with other vendors (e.g. Oracle Database).