Does Red Hat want people to go to Enterprise Linux? Sure, that's where
the revenue is. Without the redistributable line, however, Red Hat
would have to do their own QA on every product that they don't even
write, and they probably decided that shipping and supporting a free
version was lower cost to them. I also think tha Red Hat is realistic
and knows that not everybody will jump to RHEL - I certainly can't
afford $349 per year at home for the OS. At work, yes, because my time
is worth something. At home, I'll be running the redistributable
versions for quite a while.
You can use the RedHat Enterprise Source RPM's and the RedHat Enterprise Errata
Source RPM's all you want.
If you take a RedHat 7.2 install, (the base, without the errata) and then download the
SRPMS for RedHat Enterprise AS, you will find that there are only a few that are different,
from then on all you have to do is rpmbuild the errata when they come out.
You can have a 5 year lifespan on your personal server for free with a little extra work.
-Ben.
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