Red Hat will officially support EPEL in the future
 

As CentOS blog can be seen in the , Red Hat officially wants to upgrade the EPEL repository, which has been maintained since 2007, with a small team of full-time supervisors. The community-based special interest group EPEL SIG is not to be replaced, but supplemented. So far, Red Hat or the Fedora Project have not given any guarantees, support or certifications for EPEL packages, as is usual for packages in the official RHEL repository. This could change now.

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It finally came to this. Support for the project should come much earlier, but well ... You can't always have everything right away. And what, can you count on additional?

Ah! I was going to switch to CentOS before I heard the news. I'm unsure now.

freeBSD uses RHEL7 (i think) for emulation - they did allot of kernel integration to make it happen. (oddly they are taking on more linux ports and freeBSD natives?!)

SunOS is (was?) built on RHEL7, I was/is a big fan of Sun Oracle + java, but again - I think I didn't switch becaues I needed qt5.higher and their RHEL7 was known not to suffice.

As to politics of how much RH charges how they got there - no comment. Political.