Regardless of who owns Redhat, they still have to provide the source RPM's for most of the packages. The best they could do is change the build format enough a

Regardless of who owns Redhat, they still have to provide the source RPM's for most of the packages. The best they could do is change the build format enough and often enough to make it painful to repackage. I don't envision them doing this however. That would force a lot of people away from Redhat based distros and guarantee barring conversion to RHEL entitlements.