My concern is having my operating system and it’s updates directly attached to my personal information. It’s not a policy that’s mindful of the kind of things Snowden talks about. For example it’s easy for a gov’t to get away with compelling a company or employee to poison an update going to one person, hard if it has to sit in a public repo. It also opens the door to Red Hat being pressured to cancel accounts of servers that host unpopular speech (or simply belonging to a company where the CEO said something bad 10yrs ago) as it’s becoming a trendy thing to push companies to do.
While i’m in the lucky category of being very boring to everyone, it’s not a precedent i’d prefer to reward and I think mandated accounts are best left for Windows 11.
That said… the reason Red Hat set it up this way is understandable. Red Hat is generally pure of spirit and if I had to trust a company Red Hat is a very easy choice (my laptop runs on CentOS) but a little bell in my head just won’t let me attach my ability to use software to a central authority.
For a company however, it can make a lot of sense and the support is a massive plus.