After their killing of CentOS, I hope anyone who reasonably can avoids RHEL. I'm positive they're going to change policies again in the future and fuck over people who decided to go with this zero monetary cost RHEL offering.
> When we announced our intent to transition to CentOS Stream, we did so with a plan to create new programs to address use cases traditionally served by CentOS Linux.
This is a load of bullshit. If that was their plan they would have announced both of these changes together. It's not like they were under time pressure to get the announcement out.
>This is a load of bullshit. If that was their plan they would have announced both of these changes together. It's not like they were under time pressure to get the announcement out.
I work for Red Hat, opinions are my own, etc. I don't know why they decided to announce the CentOS plans before announcing at least some of the expanded RHEL offerings, and many people are just as confused as myself. However, whatever the reason was, it's absolutely true that expanding access to no-cost and low-cost RHEL was always the plan, and the original announcement effectively stated as much.
You've obviously made the choice to hate, but for anyone else reading this comment, the CentOS announcement specifically mentioned at the time that an announcement like this was coming regarding expanded RHEL options. Not sure what more evidence is needed that it was the plan. If you're a conspiracy person go look at archive.org's version. If you believe archive.org is in on the conspiracy, well, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Not the OP, and I have no doubt they had plans to "expand" RHEL options
I also have no doubts they wanted to see how much bad PR the announcment made before figuring out that those expanded options where
It was from be beginning a Monetary Grab, Redhat did a global scream test to see how much they would have to give away to take the screams down to a dull roar and stop the bleeding just enough to not lose any market share
They have landed on 16 as the magic number for now, but like the OP I have visions of Darth Vader saying “I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.” while wearing a RedHat
It does not fill me with confidence that I should make use of that 16 server license...
RH was under time pressure to announce the CentOS 8 EOL dates. Because we did not want more people to move to CentOS 8 during the holidays. The programs weren't ready and we felt it was important to get the CentOS Linux announcement out as soon as possible. We had many long discussions about this in the Red Hat internal memolist when CentOS news were announced. Please search the internet for Red Hat's memolist. It takes a lot of time to come up with free programs like this, thats the simple truth. You can choose not to believe this and wait for few years to see how these turns out. It is not about immediate revenue growth but how to make RHEL evolve as the next generation OS. If RHEL does not change it will be become obsolete sooner or later.
> When we announced our intent to transition to CentOS Stream, we did so with a plan to create new programs to address use cases traditionally served by CentOS Linux.
This is a load of bullshit. If that was their plan they would have announced both of these changes together. It's not like they were under time pressure to get the announcement out.