Why

Let's not get carried away here. The threshold is that it has to lead sufficient market distortion that pricing mechanisms no longer work correctly. RedHat is working in a highly competitive market, with low vendor lock-in, anyone can cancel their subscription at any time without significant consequences. No-one is going out of business by this decision, Rocky & Alma Linux by their own admission will be continuing just fine, even if the product they produce is slightly different.

My reading of Kuhn article is that it's primarily concerned that it's no longer possible to verify that RedHat is actually GPL compliant. I can understand from SFC's view, this is a bad thing, but I'm really failing to see what harm this is causing anyone else (other than more work for Alma & Rocky Linux).

> If the users of CentOS clones cannot access the same source then they will be forced to join together with upstream open source developers, vendors of all sorts & even antitrust authorities to force open equitable hardware vendor information access & create another single source distribution outside of the control of Red Hat & IBM.

How is this different from any other Linux distribution? No-one's arm is being twisted to force them to use RedHat.