You've obviously made the choice to hate, but for anyone else reading this comment, the CentOS announcement specifically mentioned at the time that an announcement like this was coming regarding expanded RHEL options. Not sure what more evidence is needed that it was the plan. If you're a conspiracy person go look at archive.org's version. If you believe archive.org is in on the conspiracy, well, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Not the OP, and I have no doubt they had plans to "expand" RHEL options
I also have no doubts they wanted to see how much bad PR the announcment made before figuring out that those expanded options where
It was from be beginning a Monetary Grab, Redhat did a global scream test to see how much they would have to give away to take the screams down to a dull roar and stop the bleeding just enough to not lose any market share
They have landed on 16 as the magic number for now, but like the OP I have visions of Darth Vader saying “I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.” while wearing a RedHat
It does not fill me with confidence that I should make use of that 16 server license...
