[bodeadly]

Yeah, I don't get it either.

On a related note, folks who are thinking we'll just use Debian or SUSE or whatever other distro, don't understand what RH does. RH is one of the principal contributors to core Linux components used by all distros. Who makes some 10GbE driver work really well? RedHat. And that driver makes it's way back into the kernel sources used by all distros. So I think there's a lack of understanding of the dynamic here.

The allure of RHEL clones is that it's all been checked over by organized engineers who's job security depends on the quality of their work. I would much prefer not to rely on a couple of free-timers producing a result equivalent to what RH does.

And yet there is a huge demand from folks that simply cannot pay what RH wants. So my guess is that something new is going to come out of all of this ....