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It will force a panic registration from people who are using RHEL compatible tools without subscriptions. But in the long term it will prevent the semi-admins from entering the world of redhat. I believe that they exchanged long term goals against immediate profit.

A rhel subscription for a server is $800, you can't do anything with the $350 subscription since it's for physical machine only.

Dunno, there is probably an MBA with a big plan behind it, with "a focus on user experience and added value for our customers" yada yada. Anyway it doesn't feel like home anymore.

How is it on the debian side? Who is running debian servers here?

Ok hold up… so, Red Hat is locking sources behind a subscription? Is this not a GPL violation?

Oof that's a sort of big deal. Geerling's (geerling.guy) well-known in the Ansible world for the Roles he publishes to Ansible Galaxy. This could end up being a lot of work for people in enterprise scenarios if his roles for RHEL stopped receiving support and engineers have to start rolling their own solutions.

I understand and agree with his pov though. I don't see the benefit to walling off access to the RHEL source behind their subscription. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can share some insight

RHEL is going through enshittification.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

That's super fair, I was thinking of this as a downstream user, but yeah as a contributor to upstream RHEL it's an annoying barrier, that no other distro has. Heck, with this much good will lost, control of centos should be spun off, otherwise trust that centos will remain available may be too low for people to contribute to it.