More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

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

  • Sergey Kozharinov@lem.serkozh.meEnglish
    172·
    1 year ago

    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

    • 30021190@lemmy.cloud.aboutcher.co.ukEnglish
      91·
      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.

    • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      8·
      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

      • Sergey Kozharinov@lem.serkozh.meEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s not like Oracle is just a rebuild, they have UEK, that is something.

        And RedHat would get much less hate if they didn’t treat Alma/Rocky as collateral damage. Or if they didn’t discontinue CentOS a few years prior.

        Also it apparently took RedHat 16 years to notice that they have a paid competitor whom they don’t like.

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      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.

      • Sergey Kozharinov@lem.serkozh.meEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think Mike McGrath would bother writing a second blog post if RH didn’t care at all. Bad publicity around RHEL would make some people consider alternatives when choosing an OS for a new tech stack, which may be noticeable much sooner.