[Jedd]

Free.

That word does not appear at all in TFA.

In the IBM/RH blog post it references[1] the word appears once, disparagingly, in the gratis sense.

I appreciate the beer / speech distinction can get tiring to explain repeatedly, but it feels like the move to distance themselves from the deeper implications & obligations of free is, shall we say, very carefully calculated.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-sour...

[mst]

Could equally be a move to minimise how much of the discussion that springs up around this blog post gets derailed and eaten alive by arguments and/or misunderstandings around said distinction.

Though I suspect we'll both end up less wrong by filing our theories under 'guesswork' and seeing what the actual state of play is six months from now.

[dogben]

This makes me feel very uncomfortable.