Hobestly, I can respect that. They seem to be fairly open about the motivations of that decision and who it's targeted it without devolving into vague fluffy corporate speech too much. You can sense the author was a bit pissed by the reactions.
And I do agree that many of the reactions to the news seemed overblown and I think the actions make sense from their point of view without being super shady, even if it still has some negative repercussions for the open source world as well.
Due to my lack of strict knowledge, I take it that there is a difference of opinion on whether RedHat violates the GPL in this case
I don't think there is a difference of opinion? RedHat only offering source code to paying customers (and devs) is completely legal and in line with the GPL license. But maybe there's something more to it that I missed.
openSUSE ALP: Mountains to Climb (www.youtube.com)
The Kick-Off meeting for the openSUSE ALP Architecture meeting started with the above presentation from Richard Brown (Distribution Architect @ SUSE)
Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes (www.redhat.com)
Red Hat's Mike McGrath (VP of Core Platforms Engineering) responds to the backlash from closing RHEL public source code access