> RH doesn't have to bear much of the cost of the development of Linux, GNU, and many other products.
I disagree. RH is one of the top contributors to many of the major projects that make up the distro. Also the process of building/maintaining a distro is itself enormous. The 3rd parties have none of that expense so they can undercut the cost easily. In the end it hurts the whole ecosystem, while benefiting a select few.
If this hurts the whole ecosystem, all community developed distributions must have been hurting it, too, by your bizarre interpretation of free software and/or arrogant take on ethics.
Explain how anything you've said so far in this sub thread can't be summed up to "red hat good, everyone else leeches".
I disagree. RH is one of the top contributors to many of the major projects that make up the distro. Also the process of building/maintaining a distro is itself enormous. The 3rd parties have none of that expense so they can undercut the cost easily. In the end it hurts the whole ecosystem, while benefiting a select few.