On 12/15/20 10:06 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:48:21AM -0700, R C wrote:
I think that Centos, being that close to RHEL, should have had a
licensing scheme for personal use, small business use, just to make
things 'fair'.
So, again, please stay tuned. Not for licensing schemes for CentOS, but for
programs for these use cases for RHEL. See https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q10
and please really do mail centos-questions@xxxxxxxxxx with your use cases.
This is answered by humans designing these programs, not by sales.
Oh I know, there are already programs like that. For example, want to
learn how to play with Kubernetes, sure, here get a free full trial
licence for RHEL to do that (but you can only get one.). Use cases; I
think a lot of people using Centos do it, because they can easily/free
build a server/workstation pretty much the same as at work, the only
difference being the background being blue instead of red.
Sure, redhat might help these "use cases" out, but that means you are
accepting a gift from a company that has an interest in selling to your
employer, and most employers will definitely not allow that and
terminate those who do.
From what I understand, RHEL and Centos go different ways so a lot of
"the community" will start looking for alternatives, and will find them.
We'll see how it goes.
(the order of magnitude in increase of email on these lists, might be an
indication about the quality of that idea.)
I don't think their (IBM/RHEL) course is going to change though,
redhat going "commercial" has been going on for a decade and a half
or so, and it looks like initial investors have a desire
cashing/selling out at this point.
I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different
reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the
stated motivation
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q2
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