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by helen___keller 2023 days ago
> I think I understand RHEL and I think I understand Fedora, but I never got the appeal of CentOS.

The appeal of CentOS was a gratis rebuild of RHEL, so if you understand why people use RHEL then CentOS is the same but without the paid enterprise support.

> Now, I understand the appeal of that to certain super risk averse enterprises who value stability over any kind of developer or user happiness (including the ability to run latests versions of userland software that happens to require somewhat recent php/python/etc versions). But aren't those exactly the kinds of enterprises that would want normal RHEL licenses anyway?

It's a jump in logic to assume that just because an enterprise wants stability, then they want to pay for support. That's simply not the case.