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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)
Funny considering that AlmaLinux OS Foundation is a non-profit
Until RedHat decides to pull the rug, just like it already did with CentOS
Also:
From: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/renew-your-red-hat-developer-program-subscription
Yeah, I think setting up build and distribution infrastructure is not adding any value
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
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.
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.