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0 pointsghshephard12y ago0 comments

"Red Hat was attempting to keep their product from the open-source homebrew market "

Nothing would make Red Hat happier than having every hacker under the sun using Red Hat - what they were attempting to do was keep the enterprise customers, who were currently paying $1000+/CPU (or so) go with a free alternative and kill their company.

Simply removing three things allowed them to do that: (1) No RHN/Up2Date available for Centos, (2) No Support, (3) Most importantly, absolutely no mention or reference to "Redhat" Trademarks.

Centos had everything else.

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nitrogen12y ago

(3) Most importantly, absolutely no mention or reference to "Redhat" Trademarks.

This is evil, because the law is supposed to allow referential use of trademarks as a fair use.

Otherwise, RedHat's existence is highly beneficial to Linux.

blueskin_12y ago

That's a self-imposed policy on CentOS' side, not something they were forced to do.

tedchs12y ago

Yes, and the other big advantage of RHEL in enterprisey environments is their compatibility certifications with other vendors (e.g. Oracle Database).

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