On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:03:42PM +0000, Laack, Andrea P wrote: > The companies that pay for RHEL licenses for production and use CentOS for > test will be left with a large problem. They will either need to purchase > double the number of RHEL licenses and switch to RHEL for testing or go to > another distribution. RHEL + 1 will not work for testing application > compatibility with patches. In the cases where RHEL + 0.1 (note not +1) won't work, I think it's incredibly likely that this will be covered by the expanded low- and no-cost RHEL offerings. Part of the buried lede here is that with more RHEL accessibility, a lot of the function that CentOS served for users will not be necessary anymore. > No company will want to pay double the amount they are currently paying > for RHEL licenses. This is not even addressing the cost and time it will > take to switch over all the test servers. Yeah, Red Hat knows this. Hence the above. If you have a specific case, please email the centos-questions at redhat.com address -- that goes to the people designing the new programs, not to sales. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader