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by tofflos 588 days ago
Off-topic but I love this naming convention from Red Hat which I hope gets more traction across the industry. It absolutely detest wading through vendor marketing material to figure out which open source product is being used under the hood. With names like "Red Hat Build of Keycloak" and "Microsoft Build of OpenJDK" it's crystal clear.

I believe it works out better for the vendors as well because there are so many obstacles with evaluating anything that requires a license in an enterprise setting. If the technical person downloads and evaluates the underlying open source version some manager will insist on purchasing a support contract before going to production.

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Though Red Hat did a search and replace for RHSSO with "Red Hat Build of Keycloak" in their docs, and now they are extremely painful to read with Red Hat Build of Keycloak sometimes appearing three times in one sentence when "Keycloak" or some other shortened form would suffice.