Not only does this not "stick it to the man", it's directly addressed in the FAQ. If folks want to boot up another rebuild project, there's nothing preventing that. There are also several existing ones that you could go join.
But the point is indeed that there are resources and infrastructure, so one might be hopeful that there will be a good outcome.
One possible outcome would be increased demand and resources for Debian and/or Ubuntu and I definitely wouldn't mind that (five years of support isn't all that much in IT). Realistically though, a lot of people need RHEL for free and I suspect there will be a way.
> @syshum, yes, but it's not exacly RHEL, and it's not distributed outside AWS
On the first point you are correct. It's not exactly RHEL7.
On the second point, Amazon provides images for running on prem[0]. We run a lot of dev AmazonLinux2 VMs on prem so that the local computing environment matches the deployed EC2 environment.
Yeah, resources and infrastrucure are not some magic that only Redhat can provide. If sources will be released on https://git.centos.org/ or somewhere else, then it may work. Just like the old times [1]
