Their whole product looks weird: it just looks like you can pay extra money to ensure you get the same exit IP every time.

I don’t know WHAT the use case is for that, but if people want to give someone money for it, might as well take it.

Wait wait, Oracle took someone’s stuff and did a lazy half-assed job of slapping Larry’s name on it and then shipped it as a product they then sell seven-figure support contracts on?

Well, I do declare.

This is a fight between IBM and Oracle. There’s been a lot of bad blood between them since Oracle did a s/Red Hat/Oracle/r for their own branded distribution.

IMO that’s the main driver behind this change: don’t feed your largest competitor free stuff and not something specific against Rocky/Alma/whoever else is using the code.