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I don't understand the heartburn people are having about this.

If you want to use a free distro, why not just move to one of the many distributions which are not tied to a for profit company?

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Which other distros are there which have 10 years support? It looks like there's only Oracle Linux left currently? That is like being caught between a rock and a hard place ;-)

CentOS never had support. It only had "10 years of support" in the sense that it was a mostly compatible downstream rebuild of RHEL which does have long-term support for subscription customers.

10 years of security updates/critical fixes.

Which means you can set it up once, install your mail server or whatever, and have a solid and secure system for a very long time.

If you're small, use RHEL developer license. If you're big, buy proper RHEL license.

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