On 08/16/2013 12:18 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> If you are asking for an opinion, I actually agree that they (Red Hat) >> should also give it away for free. However, nothing requires them to do >> so. Since they didn't, CentOS was created and fills that niche. > Hmm. In my opinion, Red Hat is doing the right thing. I > learned long ago that customers fall into a quadrant of > being high profit or low profit and low maintenance or > high maintenance. It's always a good decision to drop > the low profit and high maintenance customers. > > By doing this, Red Hat keeps a good reputation since it > can avoid dealing with users who are most likely to have > a bad experience due to unrealistic expectations. > > I'm just glad that they do provide the source code and > that the folks behind CentOS do everything that they do!
Well, certainly there is nothing wrong with their decision and there are pros and cons to both approaches. I am also very happy they provide public sources.
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