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I would agree 100%, but this is not 90s Red Hat, it's IBM now. It seems like the classical "Here's our new pricing and for being a long time customer we throw

I would agree 100%, but this is not 90s Red Hat, it's IBM now. It seems like the classical "Here's our new pricing and for being a long time customer we throw in a bottle of vaseline too". Which technically has nothing to do with open source but Red Hat ( like every company in this space ) created an "ecosystem" and uses the word "open source" VERY liberally when selling you stuff. Some of their opensource software need some paid service or "maintenance" contract to work or have any value. I'm sure Red Hat/IBM is ( mostly ) covered on the legal side, but the sausage is made in a very different way.

j33zusjuice 4y ago
Like what? You’re paying for engineering, which provides stability, and support. There’s nothing from Red Hat that isn’t upstream for free. They even open source companies that they purchase (like 3scale). The base OS has multiple clones (Alma, Rocky, etc.), Satellite comes from Foreman, AAP2 comes from Ansible and AWX, IdM from FreeIPA, OpenShift from OKD, and the list goes on. The only thing I can think of that doesn’t have an upstream equivalent Insights, but that’s because it uses RedHat’s ML systems, and connecting your systems to theirs costs money. Insights-core is open source, but may not provide much value since you can’t connect to RH’s backend.
axiolite 4y ago
> uses the word "open source" VERY liberally when selling you stuff. RedHat has consistently been the most aggressive supporter of Open Source out of any for-profit companies. Not only do they contribute to open source projects, they consistently release their own code/projects as open source early on, which could easily be kept proprietary (if they chose) and used as a competitive advantage over others.