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Dave
How do you see them creating a reliance on RHEL (not doubting just wanting to make sure I see your view).

RH (in OpenStack) is selling the OS for infrastructure (including KVM as a virt). While making sure other OS implementations can functionally run is a given, asking them to provide support for those OS's is a bit much.


The sore spot here is the RHEL guest OS on top of other OpenStack (non RHEL OS) platforms. RHEL not being certified on other virt platforms isn't that irregular. They support(ed) Xen, VMWare and (I think) hyper-v. Their support policy on the web as recently as last year said they would give best effort but had no guarantee (SLA).

I've been deep in this for the last 2 years and while we all would "appreciate" RedHat changing it's policy this was always a commercial decision. Frankly speaking if any of the other distro's wanted to invest deeply in the kernel (KVM) and core talent similar to RH investment levels this would be easier to discuss. RHEL is sold as enterprise class ...blah blah blah ... But that really means they do testing, certification and can assure customers that there is a plan and model in place should the need arise. 


Example:
Customer x has a prob within their RHEL implementation, they call RH for support, RH determines the issue may be in the host infrastructure, if its a Debian Distro who does RH call to work with? Who makes sure the patch can be generated to be sure RH doesn't violate it's support agreements, do the other OS vendors have that deep experience and community involvement to do that? Obviously the answers vary and therefore a uniform support model isn't practical.

Customers can and should vote with their feet - if your host infrastructure is ready to play then compete, otherwise you should start a commercial discussion.

Kyle 








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> On May 14, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Dave Nielsen <dnielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm no lawyer, but I think it would be hard to prove RHEL has a monopoly. Still, Red Hat has turned a reliance on RHEL by OpenStack customers into a clear liability for the rest of the OpenStack community. Rather taking Red Hat to court, it seems it would healthier to get serious about supporting a competitive alternative, or helping to create one. 
> 
> [this my opinion, not that of anyone I may consult for from time to time]
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>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Joshua McKenty <joshua at pistoncloud.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that’s the one. I’ve printed a PDF just to help out.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Joshua McKenty
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>> "Oh, Westley, we'll never survive!"
>> "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."
>> 
>>> On May 14, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> is it this one? Title: Red Hat Plays Hardball on OpenStack Software
>>> 
>>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCsQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303851804579560290024021158.html&ei=aIpzU_vzFevJsQT_kIGoBw&usg=AFQjCNHe46xKvlhxjlEttnUlRWwzhEXyLA&sig2=sMzbNDF7bRan-69AJ0a5fQ&bvm=bv.66699033,d.cWc&cad=rja
>>> 
>>> Trick: if you google the title of the article, WSJ will give you the
>>> full article but if you follow the url straight from a link, WSJ
>>> requires login
>>> 
>>>> On 05/14/2014 09:38 AM, Joshua McKenty wrote:
>>>> Sorry
>>>> - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303851804579560290024021158
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Joshua McKenty
>>>> Chief Technology Officer
>>>> Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
>>>> +1 (650) 242-5683
>>>> +1 (650) 283-6846
>>>> http://www.pistoncloud.com
>>>> 
>>>> "Oh, Westley, we'll never survive!"
>>>> "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."
>>>> 
>>>> On May 14, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com
>>>> <mailto:dneary at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Josh,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you have a link?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Dave.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 05/14/2014 09:07 AM, Joshua McKenty wrote:
>>>>>> Board members et al,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As usual, I am not a lawyer. However, given the overtones of
>>>>>> antitrust concern in this article, if other board members and/or
>>>>>> foundation staff feel that we should discuss this, I would ask that
>>>>>> we schedule a quick board-coffee-meeting. We need to avoid any
>>>>>> walking quorums, and we also need to instruct Jonathan and foundation
>>>>>> staff with a clear response. This is not a topic where I feel it
>>>>>> would be appropriate for Alan to represent the board.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Joshua
>>>>>> 
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