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Compared to all the shit Canonical is pulling since such a long time, what IBM/RH is doing is child's play:
This is exactly why I have never touched Ubuntu and avoid anything to do with Canonical as much as possible.
That's interesting. I'm aware of all of these occasions and more but my take on the whole is the opposite. 😃
So illegally claiming copyright on GPL'ed binaries is good? OK, that's certainly one odd opinion to have...