<story><title>Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dralley</author><text>(RH Employee)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.&lt;p&gt;Without saying too much - stay tuned for further announcements.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.&lt;p&gt;Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.&lt;p&gt;I have a single server in my home running CentOS 7. I gain nothing by using RHEL over Rocky in the future, except with RHEL I have to accept ToS, do some subscription checks, and run the risk that Red Hat cancels this programme down the road. I only see this of value for someone who actually runs real RHEL in prod, and needs to test&amp;#x2F;validate hardware&amp;#x2F;software. For anyone just wanting &amp;#x27;free&amp;#x27; RHEL, they should just use Rocky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>&amp;gt; Without saying too much - stay tuned for further announcements.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a horrible way to treat users.&lt;p&gt;They aren&amp;#x27;t paying customers, so whatever for RH short-term bottom line. But amount of community backslash approach like that is bringing can have negative long term impact.&lt;p&gt;RH pulled the rug from under the people, and is telling them to stay tuned. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t base my infra on a system like that.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s good for overall Linux community - RH has way too much power there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dralley</author><text>(RH Employee)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.&lt;p&gt;Without saying too much - stay tuned for further announcements.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.&lt;p&gt;Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.&lt;p&gt;I have a single server in my home running CentOS 7. I gain nothing by using RHEL over Rocky in the future, except with RHEL I have to accept ToS, do some subscription checks, and run the risk that Red Hat cancels this programme down the road. I only see this of value for someone who actually runs real RHEL in prod, and needs to test&amp;#x2F;validate hardware&amp;#x2F;software. For anyone just wanting &amp;#x27;free&amp;#x27; RHEL, they should just use Rocky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>I understand as an RH employee you&amp;#x27;re likely not in a position to make decisions about what you can disclose when, but... (I&amp;#x27;m sure you&amp;#x27;re aware) your first answer contradicts your second.</text></comment>