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by rhodysurf 2025 days ago
I worked in defense for a while. Every DoD contractor is locked to RHEL version that their DoD targets use as end users. But they don’t need to pay for RHEL support currently because they all just use CentOS instead. This forces all of those companies to finally pay up, which they will def not be happy about.
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This genuinely surprises me. When I moved into enterprise 15 years ago, I was more inclined to use free things and piece everything together myself. This quickly overwhelmed me, and I learned the golden rule of enterprise--nothing without a support contract.