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by anand-s • 11 years ago

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nailer3• 11 years ago

Neato. This means you can download RHEL directly for free, rather than CentOS or another source rebuild.

tomku• 11 years ago

You can download it for free, but the terms and conditions[1] still limit you to "development purposes only".

[1] http://developers.redhat.com/terms-and-conditions/

SloopJon3• 11 years ago

Specifically, "If you use the Red Hat Subscriptions for any other purposes, you are in violation of Red Hat’s Enterprise Agreement set forth below and are required to pay the applicable subscription fees, in addition to any and all other remedies available to Red Hat under applicable law."

I think I'll stick to downloading Oracle's version of RHEL.

fragmede• 11 years ago

I'm having trouble seeing what this is good for, given those terms. Most software companies, especially those that sell software provide some kind of support, which is expressly prohibited by these terms.

While they don't go into detail here, if you buy a software product I created and I give you support via email, is that considered a "support service"? How about if you give me money, and I add some generic feature you really need? Is that considered support? What if you pay me to add custom integration for you? Redhat is infamous for really dumb/horrible policies but that hasn't stopped them from becoming a billion dollar company in the process of being "open".

Probably the worst one was, at least at some point, if you didn't renew your support contact, you were actually obligated to uninstall all their software.

nailer3• 11 years ago

I'm fine with that: it's still OSS, you only pay for Red Hat to compile it and provide you with support. If you don't mind the lack of logos or support centos provides you with the same software.

Disclaimer: I worked at Red Hat a decade ago.

csears• 11 years ago

Interesting that Red Hat OpenStack Platform isn't mentioned anywhere on the Developers site, even in the downloads section under "Cloud Products". I guess IaaS infrastructure is less relevant to developers than containers and OpenShift.

krakensden• 11 years ago

I mean- it is! IaaS tooling is really only relevant to people maintaining a private cloud, which is a shrinking piece of the market.

Fenster• 11 years ago

Shouldn't the first sentence be: "It's hard to overestimate..."?

maw• 11 years ago

Maybe "it isn't not hard to misunderestimate".

justinclift• 11 years ago

Developers! Developers! Developers!

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