[CoolGuySteve]

I'm saying either it will exist and come from Red Hat or somebody else will make it. It's inevitable.

But economically speaking, it's cheaper for Red Hat to not pointlessly rebrand their own product. CentOS as a Red Hat-owned brand is stupid.

[UMetaGOMS]

There is no evidence that RHEL will be releasing a free version to replace CentOS, and the fact that others will take over a replacement OS development is already known.

My comment was focused on the confusion/exasperation at why people keep implying this is no problem, because we can just use RHEL for free, as that is not true.