I agree with you, but we aren’t corpo assholes. And those changes were allowed under that extremely copy-left license.

When was RHEL non-sub? I’m guessing you’re thinking of the code availability change, or maybe centos? Or are you literally thinking of the RH and not RHEL?

Yeah they were major contributors to open source

Still are.

Had we known, we wouldn’t have made so many downstream distros from them.

I remember rocky, alma, oracle, and Amazon. 2 of those are now upstream, 2 are still downstream (and only 1 wasn’t corpo backed).

Alternatively they might not have made that change if people weren’t literally repacking their product and trying to steal their market share by giving it away for free with cheaper enterprise support. Imagine telling that to a room of rich shareholders.