I was wrong about Red Hat's EULA and its enforceability
I&#x27;m personally happy about this whole situation. Not because I agree with RH at all, but because it will accelerate the decline of RHEL and the entire EL ecosystem and mean I have to support those distros less in the future. (In a DevOps capacity, I&#x27;m not a contributor.)<p>There is a lot of back and forth as to why RedHat is employing this footgun now. It comes down to them feeling, in part, that they are footing the development labor bill while rebuilders (Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux) reap the rewards and undercut them on support contracts. The other part is enterprises and SMB running thousands of CentOS&#x2F;non-subscription EL variants and having a token number of RHEL subscriptions to use for support any time they get into trouble.<p>The real solution to the second problem is to explicitly forbid it within the RHEL support contracts and enforce that. You are either a RHEL shop or you are not. Make it a binary decision. This weird tactic of trying to kill off the customer alternatives is going to just kill off the EL ecosystem in the end. I know I abandoned the EL ecosystem entirely when CentOS Stream became the thing.