McGrath: Red Hat’s commitment to open source

TL;DR - If you want to move from Red Hat, do it now but make it a reasoned decision in your best interests. Support from any one particular distro is always a cost/benefit decision: they are all equally bad when your bug can't be fixed.

Full disclosure: I currently have a free RHEL developer subscription. I use it to try small things for people, set up machines and VMs to gain expertise for myself. I *can't* force anyone to pay for Red Hat so I sometimes prototype on RHEL and use Rocky. I've a distro mirror next door - I built it on RHEL because I need to show it to RHEL-native sysadmins. Because I can't force the RHEL natives to take out another RHEL subscription, I took the scripts and remade it on Rocky.

Self support on the free tier makes it *really hard* to file a bug for RHEL. Two show stopper bugs took forever to be raised. I could demonstrate that they only occurred with RHEL signing certificates / Red Hat subscription manager. The response made me less enamoured of RHEL. I'd quite like to raise a bug that RHEL 9 doesn't run on my HP Microserver but no-one will listen so the Microserver now runs on Rocky 8.

But RHEL developers |= RHEL system architects and customer supporters |= RHEL senior management. Former RHEL |= current RHEL and current RHEL == IBM.
Red Hat (was) a large company with differences of opinion - hating one RHEL person for what they may or may not say in a press release is perhaps not useful.

If the problem really is Oracle Linux (and not Rocky/Alma) can we just get some popcorn
and watch as IBM take on Oracle? Both have licence compliance mavens but IBM has over a century's worth of attack dog lawyers and a significantly longer corporate memory.