Comment RH "benefits from others work" angle questioned (Score 1) 101
I see many people saying Red Hat uses lots of code created by others in their end product. This point is true. But I think many of the same people also then jump to "and therefore Red Hat should allow someone to clone their product 100% and advertise that it is 100% cloned, compete for support $ also as offerings, and use Red Hat's name in all their advertising and marketing materials.
I don't see it that way - from my view, anyone can take RHEL code, or Linux kernel code, and create their own Linux variant, and try to sell support for it. Similar to how AWS does with their Linux version, and Microsoft with their recent Linux version, and Suse in their classic version, and Ubuntu with their Linux offering. Everyone in this list benefits similar to Red Hat, and uses lots of code created by others for free. So in my view, Oracle, Rocky and Alma all have the ability and freedom to build their own Linux version that runs great and is well supported - but they choose to try to "clone" someone elses product who has spent alot of time and money paying employees to build the value of it.
I wish all the people that want "RHEL value" without paying for it, would just put a sock in it already - it is sleazy and scummy in my view...