On 12/8/2020 12:20 PM, Michael Watters wrote:
This was one of my fears regarding the IBM acquisition. I guess we can't complain too much, it's not like anybody *pays* for CentOS. :)
yes, but "we" do provide feedback and bug reports from a LOT of different environments which directly helps RHEL. That is not an insignificant benefit to IBM. I'm sure IBM will pick up a few paid RHEL licenses with this move, but I'm not sure the amount will be material enough to show up on the income statement. Experienced admins can easily adapt to Debian/Ubuntu/Suse etc. In contrast, they lose the projects who started off with CentOS but switched to RHEL paid support when they had special needs or the production environment dictated that they have a 'real' license with Support. We have a few customers who did precisely that.