[throw0101c]

> […] essentially just rebuilding and rebranding "their code".

Thereby creating an eco-system of RH-based systems that people learn about and get familiar with, so when it comes to going into production the natural default is to just purchase the official RHEL for those systems.

I think RH/IBM are being short-sited on how useful the free eco-system is.

[dev_daftly]

This gets stated a lot, but I don't think it's actually true and RH has stated they don't see an actual benefit from this. Plus, they already have that ecosystem that isn't just free-version of RHEL with CentOS Stream and Fedora.