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Enterprise distributions and free software

Enterprise distributions and free software

Posted Mar 8, 2011 0:47 UTC (Tue) by blitzkrieg3 (guest, #57873)
In reply to: Enterprise distributions and free software by dlang
Parent article: Enterprise distributions and free software

> Red Hat's move to lock down information about this kernel is an admitted attempt to increase customer lock-in; they are trying to make it harder to move to another provider of support.

I take issue with this definition of lock-in, which is one I've never heard before. Red Hat doesn't do anything to the OS or to the customer to make it harder for the customer to move, we simply make it harder for competitors to support Red Hat software. Now if you're a business person and you say, "We could move to vendor X for Enterprise Linux support, but their support is not as good as Red Hat", I could see how that might make it "hard to move", but that isn't lock-in.


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Enterprise distributions and free software

Posted Mar 8, 2011 1:09 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

I agree. An example of lockin would be creating custom APIs without ever pushing those APIs upstream. Android kernels seems to have that problem, not RHEL (as far as I know).


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