Thanks for posting this! It was a long read, and while I was familiar with a lot of the history, I learned some new things.

As I’ve said before:

I would support Red Hat if they only made their free software offerings available to paying customers. I think this is how a free software company should work. Most free software is not sustainable today, and it would be nice if Red Hat could be a good example of how to build a successful free software company.

Even if Red Hat terminates the contracts of customers who share the sources, this wouldn’t be against the GPL, but I think it would be nasty to scare your customers into not exercising their granted freedoms under the GPL.

My position is that I don’t think this is how a free software company should behave, but I’ll refrain from voicing any further opinions until Red Hat actually terminates a customer’s contract for redistribution.

I will say from business perspective, Red Hat already give offer to anyone… And it’s centos stream code, you can rebuilt it as same as RHEL, and it’s open source. And it’s GPL…

So let it be like that, and with Almalinux working together, everything will be stronger than ever… At least CIQ can suck up their contract, that resold Red Hat code and never support upstream ever… And stole about 30% of RHEL corporate market with cheap and no labor cost… So whatever…