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Being a corp slog nearly my entire life, it's good to stay open to all opinions. With that I say, that I have encountered piles of fraud with organizations in my career. They would buy a couple licenses of RHEL when their fleet was really CentOS and they would just lie on support calls. I think this is what Red Hat was getting at with all the "freeloader" nonsense. Tone deaf, yes. Wrong, not totally.

...continuing to be fair, Red Hat support has literally been the best I have ever used in my career. Hands down. I know I sound like a shill but I'm not. Just a reg ol' engineer. I've since moved on, like most, to cloud and past RHEL but it has it's uses. Cattle not pets for cloud!




Regarding the "freeloaders" comment, Mike McGrath made a follow-up post on LinkedIn that includes the following:

> Finally, I wanted to say something about the term "freeloaders" I've seen many use it. This is a mostly internal term we have at Red Hat, it looks like at some point it slipped out in the public. So what does it mean? A freeloader is when a large enterprise business has 20 RHEL licenses, 150,000 community rebuild systems, and sometimes hundreds of user accounts and hundreds of kbase searches per month. It's not the enthusiasts, it's not the hackers and coders, it's not the academics, and it's not the people that use rebuilders because they can't afford it. We really try not to use the term, but when we do, it's about the large companies that can afford to pay but don't.




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