Unfortunate, but then the question becomes, is a slightly different version of R...

shawnz · on July 14, 2023

Why does this announcement make that question any more relevant than it already was a year ago for example?

Regardless, I think the answer is basically that you'd face an "xkcd 927" (i.e. "15 competing standards") problem

LeFantome · on July 14, 2023

Until recently, Alma was exactly RHEL but for free.

Now they will be CentOS which is already free.

I think it is a fair question if the new model adds value or not.

shawnz · on July 14, 2023

But even before this, Alma was using the same model as Rocky, Oracle, etc, weren't they?

diffeomorphism · on July 14, 2023

And they are stopping this now. That is the question. Not "why do you need a RHEL copy?" (which you could have asked a year ago) but "why do you need a RHEL mostly but not quite copy?"

shawnz · on July 14, 2023

Right, and surely there's strictly more value in having a slightly different copy of RHEL than an identical copy of Rocky etc, since now there are strictly more use cases that are being addressed?

diffeomorphism · on July 14, 2023

Surely not.

You now have much less supply for a common use case, but additional supply for a "new one".