[vishnu]

I'm sad to see this. Even though I'm not an advocate of GNU/Linux I was certified for RHEL 6/7 and off and on did jobs with it until 2019. I always thought it was one of the more well designed distros, besides systemd, but maybe that was Stockholm syndrome. Either way, it was never that ugly mess Debian was under the surface, or Arch. 

For those who want skinny and don't know what's going on they have basically closed off their public repositories for rhel in an attempt to cut off Rocky and Alma as downstream replacements of CentOS (which is dead, replaced with rolling release CentOS stream)

The result is that these distros are having to go through some strange ways to get copies of the latest source, such as using cloud installations of RHEL and copying tarballs off. That may violate EULAs, though which effectively makes RHEL closed source. It's one of those strange legal loopholes that cannot be overstated as being supremely moronic. 

Anyways this is not something that I ever thought I would see but now that I see it I'm quite disappointed.

Does RHEL come with EULA protected commercial software? I did not KNOW dat! I appreciate what Red Hat's employees have contributed to the kernel, but as a distribution I wouldn't use it even if the alternative was a firing squad...