[johnnym]

I'm sad to see this.

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

Don't be sad. This is "just" the next step after terminating the original CentOS. It's now the offspring that is targetted. The question is, if Red Hat - or is it IBM - manages to prevail with their attitude: i.e. keeping the community as free beta testers for their enterprise OS and scare off the rest. But this move can also backfire onto RHEL itself. The damage is already there, people won't forget those moves mid-release and make different decisions regarding the OS of their choice in the future. There is a stench now on RHEL.

But this move could also be the chance to finally "create" a Community ENTerprise OS made by the community and backed by a foundation and provide support for it from 3rd party companies that are not directly involved in the development. Everybody (incl. companies) can use it for free, but if you want to be covered you get support from one of these 3rd party companies. E.g. a little like Rocky Linux (OS) and RESF (foundation) and CIQ (3rd party company providing support).

SUSE and maybe also Oracle seem to want to create a RHEL fork in this regard. At first I found the idea problematic. But on second thought the only thing that's problematic about it is, that it comes from SUSE and Oracle (or insert any company here).

If such a community enterprise OS could get going big way in public science infrastructures, institutions, (super)computing centers, etc. around the world, making RHEL or SLES a second choice, that would be nice to see. 

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Does RHEL come with EULA protected commercial software?

No, I don't think so. they just mistook the GPL for the MIT or BSD license and thought nobody would notice that they are acting against the idea behind the GPL (v2).

Did you know that when you have a contract with them and you want to excercise your GPL rights, they can cancel the contract? The SFC has a good article on the GPL and Red Hat.