I work for a company that tried to put RHEL on the high performance server equipment we build, and we’re quoted about 1 million dollars per license, non-negotia

I work for a company that tried to put RHEL on the high performance server equipment we build, and we’re quoted about 1 million dollars per license, non-negotiable. That would have made our product far too expensive. So we ended up going with CentOS, and then Rocky, and hired a team of about 30 people to manage it (and some other projects). I appreciate Red Hat and their right to manage software as they see fit, but given my experience over the past several years, it feels they are just trying to squeeze the brand for as much as they can get. I’m curious to watch what will happen to it over the next five years.