[luma]

And without the GPL and all the code that came with it, there would be no RH. Rocky is making use of the same legal protection that RH is. Yes, RH spends more on development but they are doing so using the tools and existing codebase given to them, for free, by others.

Rocky is doing something no different than what RH is doing, and if this is problematic for RH's hopes of sucking in a few $B, that's more a problem with RH's business model than it is Rocky's. They have made $Bs selling support for free software, some large part of which they didn't author, and now they want to squeeze the entire ecosystem for more.

I have zero sympathy for RH and fully support Rocky's approach here. This is a problem of RH's own creation and trying to deflect the blame onto Rocky is absurd.

[bonzini]

> Rocky is doing something no different than what RH is doing

Count the contributors to Rocky and RHEL. Then tell me how they can be "doing the same thing".

[luma]

Taking open source code, some large part of which wasn’t authored by them, and bundling it for others? Same thing, with one notable difference: one of them is trying to extort everyone into paying for code they themselves got, in part or in whole, for free.

RH didn’t write all of linux, but they’re trying to put a price on it like they have.