But it's not "getting closed", that's a misleading headline that people have jumped on all of a sudden, there was no talk of this yesterday when the change was announced. This was the original wording. Nothing is going closed, the way it's published is changing - you might not like the change, but to call it closed source is just deceptive.

The worst case (most cynical interpretation of Red Hat's narrative) is that they're trying to make things difficult for Rocky and Alma (which doesn't make much sense to me from their point of view but it's what it looks like). The best case (most charitable interpretation) is that it's a simple rationalisation that could encourage better community integration.

Of course if people keep spreading false or sensationalist narrative that might harm their reputation anyway through misinformation (which is kind of what happened with CentOS Stream in my view).