Free vs. pay versions (Re: Oracle Sues Google Over Android)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
>> Behalf Of Matt Shields
>>
>> paying the huge cost.  The one big problem I've had with not using RHEL
>> is
>> that when I need to get support from EMC and Qlogic for my SAN
>> connectivity
>> they will not help me if I'm not running RHEL.  So I'm on my own to
>> figure
>> out the problem.
>
> I've had similar situations ... Where I overwrite the redhat-release file,
> and overwrite the graphics files and so forth, which make software able to
> distinguish between RHEL and Centos ...
>
> For *applications* it seems to work well.  I can trick synopsys into running
> on centos, no problem.
>
> For *hardware* it does not work well.  They require RHEL because they paid
> RedHat to develop something proprietary

Huh? Says who? News to me. And I work here. Pretty sure you're
incorrect there. Red Hat doesn't do proprietary software development
for *anyone*. The software in question is more likely written by Dell
themselves. No clue how they're enforcing use only with RHEL though.

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Jarod Wilson
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