Re: [PLUG] CentOS

[Rich Kulawiec via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 06:12:39AM -0500, Steve Litt via plug wrote:
> I don't know why anybody, other than a big corporation who wants
> handholding and somebody to sue, would use any Red Hat distro
> or recent derivative.

I've had this argument too many times to count.  The problem is that some
organizations don't believe in any model of support other than paying
someone (because they weren't around back in the days when we were all
running Unix from Bell Labs and Berkeley and there was no such thing as
paid support) and they do believe that they can sue someone if it goes
sideways (like "suing IBM" is actually going to result in anything other
than a lot of billable hours for attorneys).

Facts don't matter in this argument.  History doesn't matter.  Costs don't
matter.  The "we must pay someone for support" and "we can sue someone"
mindsets are written in stone at such organizations and nobody's ever
going to change their minds, no matter how much it costs or how badly
it turns out.

---rsk
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