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Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Red Hat’s crime against CentOS In the beginning, no one expected to get RHEL for free. The end of CentOS as a free drop-in replacement is no cause for outrage Credit: Dreamstime In tech, we tend to get angriest when companies take free things away from us. For example, we shake our fist at Google for removing services the...

Thinkstock In tech, we tend to get angriest when companies take free things away from us. For example, we shake our fist at Google for removing services they once offered for free. And in open source land, we cry out for justice when our free, drop-in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (namely CentOS) becomes less useful as a way to avoid paying for RHEL. I don’t know why Red Hat chose to pull the plug on the traditional fixed-point CentOS release, leaving only the CentOS...