> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Peter
> 
> Anyways, the vendor is also free to support
> whatever OS they want, and you're free to choose not to use their
> software.

Except when you're not. Because for whatever reason, the choice of software you 
(the sysadmin) will support is determined by the users (engineers, financial 
people, whatever) who use the software. And the software vendors publicize 
which OSes are "supported" to run their software.

As mentioned previously in this thread, the software in question is Cadence EDA 
software, which I've supported many times on Centos before, but they do all 
their development and testing on RHEL, SLES, Solaris, and a few other 
commercial OSes, so they cannot say they support Centos. If you encounter any 
fringe incompatibility cases, because of running Centos, it's your 
responsibility. But they're not intentionally manufacturing any such cases into 
their software.

I'm comfortable with this. Even staking my reputation on it. But I brought up 
the questions because I need to make other people comfortable with it too.

I got all the answers I need - Thanks everyone for your help.
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