https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten
Does Rakuten ever give back to to the community ? I doubt it very much, just look at the struggles many open-source communities have with these large companies sucking blood from them over the years (openssh,openssl, ntp...) It is Halloween today, had to get a some kind of spooky over the top reference in :)
Red Hat should've gone with the Ubuntu model instead and maybe even change to usage based pricing instead of a yearly subscription too, IMO.
How? When Ubuntu tried advertising Ubuntu Pro via apt-get, everyone was outraged, and rightly so. How else could Red Hat talk to a CentOS user to convince them to pay up?
For support, folks need enterprise support contracts. Maybe not everyone, maybe not every system, but folks that need it will pay whatever for it, it's the cost of doing business. Charge accordingly.
Out of curiosity, which aspect of the subscription terms do you find obtuse? Simply put, any system managed by Satellite needs to have a Smart Management subscription. You can get these individually, or bundled with a RHEL purchase as the add-on. For consumers of the public cloud marketplace RHEL images, they include the client-side aspect of Smart Management (no Satellite infra, but you can request this) so you don't need extra subscriptions to cover those.
As an example of the pathology, there is a long standing bug in GTK that causes the positions of things to be off by few pixels if you are running an X server like xming in multiwindow mode. It doesn't sound like much but it can make it impossible to click on menu items for menus at the top of a window.
The people involved at Red Hat would say in no uncertain words that they couldn't care less if it worked when you were running a multiwindow X server on Windows -- out of nothing but pure hate for Microsoft and people who use a Microsoft OS.
Also, if some country/university thinks out loud about ditching Windoze for Linus desktops they get a huge discount -- so MS takes it serious.
> Nobody takes the linux desktop seriously anyways
I expect you are using OSX (or what ever it is called nowadays), which is a more polished desktop product, and usable by devs.
If you are on windows: you do not take Linux desktop serious enough. If you are on a Linux desktop: you forgot to count yourself. :)
ChromeOS and Android are nice but are not desktop user interfaces.
I do have a Macbook Pro but only use it for testing purposes. It works well but I only use it for running Safari so can't really say how it works for a power user.
The underlying OS and command line world is sooo much more stable than Windows.
I agree KDE3 was the most stable Linux experience (I'm with a few small adventures still a KDE user).
Expecting devs who work primarily on Linux to install a completely different OS and spent a few hours configuring it in a particular way, to work on an issue which is neither relevant to their own interests as FOSS devs, nor relevant to their employer, doesn't seem entirely reasonable.
If someone came along and fixed the bug, submitted a PR, did all the legwork and then it was still left to languish anyway then you would have a reasonable complaint. Could you provide a bit more context?
In Fedora, it is growing more pervasive by the day.
In RHEL, any implementation absolutely will not be supported, full stop.
I would hazard to say that is probably because they haven't experienced any requests for the filesystem from their customer base. If customers started specifically asking for it, I think that would change.
I mentioned that I was using btrfs loopback mounts, and they confirmed that these are explicitly unsupported.
Even when running the UEK (i.e. for ksplice), this is not allowed, and they must be removed in a support event if they have any impact at all.
I mean, they're giving away Rocky for free, so...
EDIT: Although in hindsight, yes I should have phrased that a little differently.
> Amin teamed up with one of CentOS’ founders, Greg Kurtzer. Apparently the two have been working together for 13 months to build a real-time kernel to run complex workloads and complies with the Linux open source community.