Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2020, 12:06 -0500 schrieb Matthew Miller:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:48:21AM -0700, R C wrote:
I think that Centos, being that close to RHEL, should have had a licensing scheme for personal use, small business use, just to make things 'fair'.
So, again, please stay tuned. Not for licensing schemes for CentOS, but for programs for these use cases for RHEL. See https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q10 and please really do mail centos-questions@redhat.com with your use cases. This is answered by humans designing these programs, not by sales.
But with the move of CentOS/RedHat to restrict the previously promised support time for CentOS 8, they loose alot of trust in future statements. Trust must be earned and RedHat/CentOS/IBM has carelessly wasted that trust.
I don't think their (IBM/RHEL) course is going to change though, redhat going "commercial" has been going on for a decade and a half or so, and it looks like initial investors have a desire cashing/selling out at this point.
I don't think there will be a course change either, but for different reasons. The motivation isn't "cashing/selling out". It's... actually the stated motivation https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q2
We will see, what happens in the future, but currently i cannot recommend without serious doubt to trust RedHat in the long run.
-- Peter Huebner