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Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
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Which hand was feeding them and how are they biting it?
Idc about IBM but the saying makes little sense to me here. It's not like Ubuntu annoying Debian which at one point was their upstream. They find upstream up to fedora and beyond.
If anything, Distros like Alma and Rocky bite the hand that feeds them by offering paid support contracts. Nothing is illegal about that. But I think the saying fits the reverse better.
You make a good point. I imagine RedHat is doing this less because of Rocky/Alma, and more so because of Oracle.