Regardless of your or my opinion, the Vice President of Core Platforms Engineering at Red Hat seems to think that this is a fantastic idea. They read the negative coverage and thought the best move was to educate people on _why_ they are so convinced this is a fantastic idea.

I can't help but wonder what this person is thinking. I get that they look at Oracle Linux (or maybe even Rocky Linux) and think, "there's money we're losing". Is that really the whole story?

I don't see how, at the end of the day, this is going to help Red Hat. There's no way Oracle is going to start shelling out dollars to IBM for licenses. Maybe Rocky Linux will lose some customers, I doubt it's going to be enough to make it worth the time, effort and negative press that RedHat is suffering.