Red Hat makes its money from selling support subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Mostly the same bits are available entirely for free by way of the community led CentOS project that clones RHEL.
I recently chatted with Red Hat CEO about CentOS and the long story short is he’s good with CentOS, but ask him about Oracle and the tone of the conversation changes…
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