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Red Hat paywall?! How the Raleigh giant divided the open source community.
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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
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Maybe it's just me, but if you're doing something technical enough to require commercial support, shouldn't you have a competent IT team that doesn't need it?
Just seems weird to pay additional money for technical support of your OS when teams using Debian don't have to. Are they just more competent on average than teams using Red Hat?
This is totally right, but people with money like to point fingers and blame others. Ultimately paying for support is PR insurance.