You're incorrect, it benefits the community, it just doesn't benefit Red Hat. From the early days of CentOS, rebuilds of RHEL contributed stripping the trademar

You're incorrect, it benefits the community, it just doesn't benefit Red Hat. From the early days of CentOS, rebuilds of RHEL contributed stripping the trademarks. It's a significant effort in it's own right -- ensuring that you're doing 1 for 1. Edit: I would argue that it also does benefit Red Hat in second-order effects. An increased community using Alma/Rocky (and previously CentOS) means more finding bugs and fixing bugs. I know at least two companies that would still be on Debian if not for CentOS circa 2010-2011. I'm out of touch with them so I have no idea where they went after CentOS stopped being CentOS, but I doubt it was RHEL.