Dude deliberately ignores the whole category of RHEL users -- integrators. Say, an integrator needs to make sure some program works with RHEL, and, let's say that program works with big clusters of computers (well, think something like Ceph, or maybe Slurm etc.) Now, the integrators will need hundreds of machines running RHEL... and if they have to pay license fees for that, well, that ain't gonna happen. If cornered, integrators will just go away and not use RHEL at all, and then the value of RHEL will also drop.

Of course, any software developer targeting RHEL is also kind of an integrator, and if their company also needs to buy hundreds or thousands of licenses, well, the same thing applies.

This gets even weirder and worse if you think about using public cloud providers, who act as RHEL redistributors -- but you need to somehow have your own VM images... with RHEL. (I work for a company in this exact situation r.n.) Are we "freeloaders"? Because, I guess, if we are, then we might stop, but I don't see how that would benefit RHEL, because we'd have to drop support for RHEL instead of paying so much in license fees.