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Something I just learned recently after I started working for Red Hat and is the tldr; of the article: "Red Hat also commits to keeping our commercial products 100% pure open source. Even when we acquire a proprietary software company, we commit to releasing all of its code as open source." I had no idea this was the case, pretty cool!
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Mozilla should be considered in similar category to Red Hat. They make almost half as much in the hundreds of millions range. That's focusing on search revenue instead of doing lots of products like Red Hat does. If they did that for enterprise, they'd probably be in the billion a year situation Red Hat is. Especially now that the competitors are surveillance engines & they could differentiate w/ paid offering. Even…
Maybe, but from a corporate standpoint, Mozilla's leadership is pretty abysmal. Take the entire debacle with Mozilla Messaging. It was pretty much the only serious game in town for a decent gui mail client on Linux or really cross platform and they dropped it on the floor instead of finding some way to monetize it. I'd have paid for a decent Linux mail client with sensible calendaring (that isn't evolution aka outloo…
Which products? Firefox and Thunderbird are updating constantly and I don't see a difference between Linux and Windows there.
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Sometimes being old is a double edged sword. For instance, RHEL7 has a lot of problems on AWS because the kernel is too old to properly support many of the virtualisation features AWS provides. On bare metal RHEL7 is great, though.
Can you be more specific about this please? Disclaimer, I happily work for RH and today's blog has me ear-to-ear grinning.
Information specific to security backporting policies here: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/
Something I just learned recently after I started working for Red Hat and is the tldr; of the article: "Red Hat also commits to keeping our commercial products 100% pure open source. Even when we acquire a proprietary software company, we commit to releasing all of its code as open source." I had no idea this was the case, pretty cool!
Where is the source of Ansible Tower?
A great company, culture and a great place to work.
The Red Hat retail to Enterprise shift still leaves a little bitter taste in my mouth. I remember when they shut down public access to the rhel binaries and the beginnings of Centos. All legit to the letter of the license and no more. I get it though. Anyone know how Centos under Red Hat is nowadays?
Still thriving, to my knowledge. Scientific Linux is also out there as well. My recollection is that Red Hat was actually working directly w/ CentOS on some things to streamline their build processes. Red Hat doesn't see CentOS as a threat (as it did OEL).
What is so great about RH? When i had opportunity to use it, it look so bad mostly because lack of current/decent software in repo. Maybe their support is amazing?
I work for a company that sells software which runs on top of Red Hat/CentOS servers. As a result, sometimes we have to tell our clients that the issue is on the server level and that they need RH to take a look at it, assuming they're paying for Red Hat support.
FWIW, I've never heard any of them complain about Red Hat. I've had plenty of them complain to me that I'm sending them to RH instead of fixing their server for them (because that's what software engineers should do, right?), but they've never once complained to me about RH once they reached out.
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Apache is a foundation however, not really a "business" per-se.
The Apache Software Foundation is in no way shape or form a business. It's a non-profit with maybe 1 or 2 full-time people (last I recall) and tons of people who commit to projecs.
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> Aren't they also the only successful free software business in history? Are you sure you meant "open source software" not free software?
I don't think it is possible to be Open Source without being Free Software, and vice versa. At least I've never seen it done.