There is no justification for this move. Red Hat got seriously rich using FREE LIBRE SOFTWARE and therefore they are BOUND BY THE GPL to freely share and distribute that code.
They got it for free, they have to pass it on for free. That's the deal with Libre Computing. Yes they can sell their services and no one is infringing on that.
If some companies decide they will use a free clone of Red Hat because that cannot afford the Red Hat fees, that's their decision. It's not the fault of the free distro. Chances are that that clone distro also offers paid support, which that user is also not paying for. Which is fine.
Red Hat called the open source community "free loaders" because they reuse the code! WTF?!
That means according to Red Hat YOU are a free loader because you got Fedora for free. You freaking free loader!
And not only you but everyone in the community who gets any distro for free are all free loaders!
Clearly Red Hat have lost the plot and have gone full IBM. I REFUSE to support such a company.
My view is that no one should use Fedora because you are guinea pigs for Red Hat who takes all the improvements Fedora makes and incorporates then into their Enterprise desktop software.
Canonical are not much better. They've decided to say "f the users, we will be forcing snaps on everyone". And the Ubuntu flavours are forbidden from adding flatpak support out the box. Another user hostile move.
Next up: 24.04 will have an all-snaps immutable version alongside the regular ISO. That means they WILL eventually go snaps-only. It's a matter of time.
So f that too.
I've realised that the ONLY way to go is to use Community based distros like Debian, Void, Gentoo, Arch etc. Just move away from all corporate Linux.
Who was responsible for making Linux Subsystem did Windows? Canonical. That was a real dick move against Linux because they reduced it to a simple CLI. As if that's all Linux is.
Also, having Libre software running inside proprietary software is an offence to the Principles of Libre computing.
Now I use Linux Mint Debian Edition because it's truly 100% community. And it works great!
IMO Mint will have to drop Ubuntu within the next 2 years and go Debian only. The writing is on the wall.