A duty to minimize the damage to their brand? I mean sure, but only to their shareholders.
They also have a duty to their fellow countrymen not to kill them, but that’s never stopped them.
A duty to minimize the damage to their brand? I mean sure, but only to their shareholders.
They also have a duty to their fellow countrymen not to kill them, but that’s never stopped them.
It’s more that tobacco companirs have put out stuff such as the ‘Frank Statement’ that stuff wasn’t dangerous when they definitely knew. The CEOs also testified before congress that smoking wasn’t dangerous then recanted later.
It’s more that congress hasn’t done anything when they get lied to. Should throw those fuckers in prison and bar them from ever owning or running a company again.
… feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit. This demand for RHEL code is disingenuous.
Then remove all open source code from your code base. I don’t mean some, I mean all. Let’s see whose code you’re repackaging for your own profit.
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
Not really. After working with CentOS (RIP) for a half decade, that Firefox version was so out of date I was practically in diapers when it came out. Getting the latest version of Firefox was such a pain that my org didn’t bother even if it would have given us some niceties.
LTS and other “enterprise” distros don’t push the latest version precisely because of dependencies.