[mwcampbell]

This strikes me as an infantile response to a sensible business move. We need to grow up, realize that the free lunch is over, and pay for what we value. And developers, including large companies, need to stop coddling us by offering us their best work for free.

Edit: "We" includes me; I should pay for more software too (not that I use any commercial software illegally; I only mean choosing paid products over free ones).

[stonedeaf]

The biggest issue here is that they've went back on supporting till 2029 and given folks till this time next year to have a replacement solution in place.

I'm all for supporting the continuation of services I enjoy and make use of, but this is a huge stab in the back.

Most people will probably be fine with Stream, but it's not what CentOS users signed up for.

[jankotek]

"free lunch" is just untrue. Opensource and GPL does not work this way.

Also Redhat just cut support on one of its projects. Their business model is build on their reputation and long term support. Not best long term move.

[speeder]

What about companies like mine, that run their own servers, to do stuff that is a legal requirement, but don't have money to pay RHEL?