Business models and open source

Posted May 2, 2019 9:52 UTC (Thu) by Klavs (guest, #10563)
Parent article: Business models and open source

She says that Red Hat uses the "Pure Open Source" model... but that is not true. You are actually (according to RedHat) NOT allowed to have their distribution installed on a server where you do not have a subscription. I have not tried to contend that - I've just recommended switching to CentOS.. (but generally recommend buying Red Hat licenses - just to support Red Hat - as they do a lot of great development) - as the redhat license management and mirrors are very troublesome - whereas CentOS repo mirroring is so very opposite and easy :)

Business models and open source

Posted May 2, 2019 17:54 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> actually (according to RedHat) NOT allowed to have their distribution installed on a server where you do not have a subscription

While this has been discussed to death in the past, I believe what this actually means there is no law which prevents you from installing RHEL binaries wherever you like, copyright swat teams are not going to bust into your office like Brazil, but Redhat is under no obligation to support those installs without subscriptions, work on your tickets or continue to have you as a customer of their pre-built binary updates. Everything that Redhat works on is open source/free software, otherwise CentOS wouldn't exist.