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Nice and all, but...
Projects leaching on the work of companies like that, "freeing the code" (which literally just means huge companies will not pay a cent for Linux in the future too) and adding their 2 cents, is not really a big effort.
The same thing with other projects that "became nonfree" and where forked to "stay free".
If a license says "you can use it for free, but need to share profits over x$" it is free software in any way we should be concerned about it.
I think I won't be able to convince you, but one could say RH is leaching on FOSS projects anyway. Well, that's also what FOSS is about. Products people use should be open source, and this extends to business products. (And free as in freedom.)
Not "one could say", that's exactly how it is.
Red Hat is standing on the shoulders of thousands of FOSS projects, and all that is asked in return is that they should allow others to stand on their shoulders too.