Red Hat’s recent decision to restrict the source code for its enterprise Linux build has led open-source projects big and small to come up with creative strategies to continue to serve their users.
I don’t know specifics and it depends on each country, but there’re regulations about software having to be certified to fullfill certain conditions (e.g. security updates, permissions, etc). I guess this is probably mostly the case for defense or medical contractors.
And it’s not really that other OS don’t fullfill those requirements but mostly that they aren’t certified, at least that’s how I understand it.
I can’t really write more since I don’t know myself. The point was mostly about why some companies couldn’t just switch to another OS.
I don’t know specifics and it depends on each country, but there’re regulations about software having to be certified to fullfill certain conditions (e.g. security updates, permissions, etc). I guess this is probably mostly the case for defense or medical contractors.
And it’s not really that other OS don’t fullfill those requirements but mostly that they aren’t certified, at least that’s how I understand it.
I can’t really write more since I don’t know myself. The point was mostly about why some companies couldn’t just switch to another OS.