On 09/12/2020 09:26, centos@xxxxxxx wrote:
On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote:
A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people dumping
CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future
revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration etc.
And worse: Without CentOS being used widely (junior) admins will have
even less experience dealing with RHEL. This will result in lower
quality deployments of RHEL, reducing overall security of those systems
and it will reduce RHEL adoption, hitting RH/IBM where it hurts them most.
I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use Ubuntu
on their personal systems and they hate having to deal with RHEL. And
their opinions matter in the long run.
peter
And exactly the same applies to senior (or retired) admins on their home
computers. My main home machine runs about a dozen testbed VMs,
DHCP/DNS for the home network, Amanda, NFS and Samba for other machines,
ownCloud, Apache, Zotero and DokuWiki for the family. I want a stable
server under that lot, not a beta release.
--
J Martin Rushton MBCS
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