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The answer is "yes". IBM is being IBM. They bought CentOS and hoped that would be the end of it, but then Rocky and Alma appeared. I don't know why they didn't foresee this happening.
But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though? Not sure what they're trying to achieve with this move that isn't detrimental to their business.
I think, in the short run, they are hoping some percentage of Rocky/Alma users will migrate to RHEL. I don't believe they are really thinking about the long term.
Squeeze the existing users for cash.
The enterprises will just pay it. It’ll be cheaper than a migration for critical servers.
Corps pull the same gameplay each time:
I can only recommend you look at the last decade of IBM's history in that respect.