[babarock]

> but how long should we pay for digital assets that have already been created?

That's a mis-characterization of what's going on here.

Red Hat makes RHEL. Then it (used to) goes *the extra step* of debranding RHEL, removing trademarks, and publishing it to git.centos.org.

Red Hat is not (and cannot) prevent you from getting your hands on digital assets. It just stopped going out of their way to provide you an easy (almost) 1-click way to clone their product for free. You want to create a clone of RHEL? Sure the upstreams are all available, do it.

[BSEdlMMldESB]

> That's a mis-characterization of what's going on here.

it's not. it's a point made in a much more generalized context of discussion.

we're mixing different levels of generalization in this discussion, hence the discussion is broken and useless.

there's no redhat, there is only IBM.