but if cheesecake factory hired him and supported him to make this discovery, you would look at the menu differently.

Did RedHat say that? This is a pretty problematic statement so I would really love to see the exact text in which they set their position.

Did RedHat add that restriction? GPL requires source to be distributed along with binary, but the distributor can still decide who to distribute things to. If the only way to access binary is through being a paying customer, I don’t see why RedHat can’t say only paying customers can get access to source.

What’s the GPL violation in that, or did I misunderstand RedHat’s new policy?

The free as in freedom principle isn’t violated. GPL stands. So why all the rage? People call RedHat IBMified, what the hell does it even mean? Has IBM done anything to the community?

Really there is no principle being defended. People’s workflow isn’t even impacted as it stands, they just have to figure out new paths going forward.

Time won’t solve how people are. Most people will treat free as free of charge instead of freedom.

GUI is hard to build right and expensive to build at all. CLI tools is much cheaper to build and can be scripted. Microsoft is rich that’s why they can build GUI, and even then sysadmins have asked for Linux type of CLI tools so they can automate. So generally unlike consumer tools, sysadmin tools focus on utility instead of ease of use.