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Are we really back to the 00s? Are we going to start calling it Micro$hill next?
And "Legally it can't be stopped" doesn't really bode well for long term support in the context of contributors and so forth. It won't prevent me from using Rocky (I actually really like it for servers I will likely re-image sooner than later) but it also means I am not going to recommend it to people looking for a distro.
When looking at the 8.x and 9.x releases Rocky is the most popular distro for enterprise Linux. Even more popular than R hell, and yes I'm still bitter about what they did to centos.