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Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes (www.redhat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some mix of wrong and right, the exact proportions of which I'll leave as an exercise to the reader.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL

Standard RHEL server subscription costs 800$/year, a ridiculous price for an individual to pay (yeah I know it's called Enterprise Linux, but still)

those who want to repackage it for their own profit

Funny considering that AlmaLinux OS Foundation is a non-profit

The developer subscription provides no-cost RHEL to developers and enables usage for up to 16 systems, again, at no-cost

Until RedHat decides to pull the rug, just like it already did with CentOS

Also:

The first thing to understand is that you cannot renew your no-cost Red Hat Developer Subscription for individuals after the first year. Unlike a paid subscription, the no-cost edition for developers is limited to one year.

So, what's a developer to do? Fortunately, that's easy: You can just register again. Yes, it's that simple. Once your developer subscription expires, simply re-register and get a new, no-cost subscription. Note that you must wait until your current subscription expires before you can renew it.

From: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/renew-your-red-hat-developer-program-subscription

Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way

Yeah, I think setting up build and distribution infrastructure is not adding any value

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Funny considering that AlmaLinux OS Foundation is a non-profit

He's clearly talking about Oracle though? Like, that's almost certainly why Red Hat is doing what they're doing, rather than specifically targeting Alma/Rocky, because Oracle Linux is a paid competitor that does exactly what he describes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

RH basically does not care, and i don't think this is going to be financially significant for them for quite a while (iff they can legally get away with this). the people choosing to pay $600 a year per server do not care about open source, they care that they servers are running linux and have 7 days a week 4 hour support. the people that use RHEL daily and care about open source are not decision makers, and convincing higher-ups to stop paying for RHEL, migrate the entire tech stack to something else with support and pay that is a non-starter.

In a few years, the quality of the service will probably be significantly worse, and at that point servers currently on RHEL will have to be mostly replaced. at that point only will RH see a downside to doing this, and by that time the execs will have gotten their package for making Good Decisions and will have ran out of there, leaving the comunity to pick up the pieces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From experience, renewing once the subscription has expired isn't simple, mine never kicked back in properly. I also don't have access to the KB that explain even simple bugs on install.