My company got burned badly by this move but to play a little devil's advocate: there's no such thing as free lunch as it turns out sooner or later. Free/Open source != free as in beer. You either pay it in financial support or sharing of development and maintenance of such projects. Sooner or later.
Sure there is, the Debian project. I never understood the whole reverence for RHEL, when an alternative has lived alongside it for the whole time and longer. I've been using Debian since '97 or '98, and with one (glaring) exception, stable upgrade paths were always trivial when compared to Centos "nuke and rebuild" approach, and you get 5 years of support, which is really quite decent.
Of course, Debian will not sell you support but you have places that will. I've never worked with a truly giant fleet, so I'm sure I'm missing something, but I also feel very fortunate at the moment to have always had the choice to work with Debian both personally and professionally.
> Free/Open source != free as in beer. You either pay it in financial support or sharing of development and maintenance of such projects. Sooner or later.
It can if you want it to. Just like with free beer, if you doN't want to drink that beer you have to go find other beer.
