AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change

Besides who cares how much customers bitch about RHEL costs ISV IHV side. The customers are not going anywhere as long as those ISVs and IHVs publish for RHEL. And ISVs and IHVs won’t make the investment necessary to support their products on new platforms, before those platforms have a significant marketshare, without being real unhappy about Red Hat (for their own reasons, which are mostly unrelated to the amount Red Hat charges to its own customers).

You want to launch a new platform ? You need to make it worth to ISVs and IHVs to release for your platform in addition to the existing ones, or you need to build enough substitutes yourselves that those ISVs and IHVs get irrelevant. They won’t jump ship just to save *you* a RHEL subscription.