> From the Arstechnica URL: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arstechnica.com_gadgets_2021_01_centos-2Dis-2Dgone-2Dbut-2Drhel-2Dis-2Dnow-2Dfree-2Dfor-2Dup-2Dto-2D16-2Dproduction-2Dservers_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=5UNRADR6PpQVqP97Jl4VT9V4oTZCHRSZp5Php98SpHI&s=HmS-gVxXfw2RalHvyfiHtb9c1M1J1HQ20J613PRjRDE&e=
 

Me, waiting for the dust to settle, still too much BS and FUD flying around right now:

- articles titled "rhel is now free" with small print "... starting in february..."
- cost of managing licences counted under "free"
- artificial limits of 16 systems (what if I need 17 for a couple of days?)
- red hat reported as officially stating "[this] ... isn't a fly-by-night ... program" (echoes of Mr.Nixon famously saying "I am not a crook")
- false dichotomies of individual vs team users, development vs production systems
- "free this year", next year, a maybe.

I think I will convert my one Centos-8 machine to the "starting in february"
free rhel license, just to experience the "new and improved".

P.S. And what about CentOS/RHEL on ARM? Today, we run CentOS-7 on ARM just fine,
but going forward? Does somebody expect us to run ARM with Raspbian/Debian/Ubuntu,
but stick with RHEL on x86? Really? In our detector lab, ARM machines just
about outnumber x86 machines. The direction that is going, maybe red hat got it right
and the "16 systems" limit will be a non-issue.


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Konstantin Olchanski
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