Shannon Mitchell

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Red Hat has the same thing from the customer point of view. They just label it "support" or "entitlements" when its still a cost associated with each install or add-on. This is the main reason CentOS and Scientific Linux even exist.

I love Red Hat. I just long for the day that I can download the iso easily from redhat without signing in, point to a public redhat supplied repo in my yum configs and never have to think about registering anything. Why would I ever use CentOS at all if I could do this.

How about a support structure on a per admin bases. Companies would have to register their admins and pay based on the level of certification they are at(lower the cert the more you pay). Hows that for an incentive to purchase redhat training and certifications and have a smarter linux workforce in general. They could even provide support for the other RHEL based distros. Who knows, they could even start pulling money back from oracle shops.