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What is the use case for needing to test stuff in RHEL that isn't an Enterprise App where you want/need to buy a license anyway?

Like, why do you care about RHEL at all in a way that isn't covered by CentOS Stream?

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As a developer, I never considered buying an enterprise license anyway. CentOS/RHEL with 10-years stability was kindof the canonical base for development of backend apps when you have better things to do than keeping dependencies up to date. Especially when RHEL themselves change things all the time in a zero-sum fashion without new capabilities (cough systemd cough). Now I don't care about RHEL at all indeed.

there are conflicting or at least mutually differing goals for an OS and the products. It seems from this desk that part of the extended systemd unrest is actually about spending resources for one set of aims, not another, when both are legitimate. It seems obvious the companies acquire tech with finance, and finance often cares about security and adding new locks, fences and cameras in the product fabric. systemd and the EFI boot seem to becoming more vehicles for new locks, fences and cameras than adding features to the product.

Because end users run on RHEL, so testing on RHEL as a service to those users is a nice thing to do.

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