why not use alpine instead?
Of course, having had licensed RHEL machines and VMs in the past, this whole thing makes me much less likely to ever pay RedHat/IBM for them again… Definitely already time to look for alternatives. It is really quite a shame though, given the amount of Linux and related open source development RedHat developers did.
It's like building a diet exclusively based on eating the free samples at Costco then going "oh those evil bastards, I'll starve to death" when they take them away.
Maybe use platform-agnostic architecture next time or don't build your house of cards on proprietary-adjacent distros.
"Due to this ongoing bad behavior by IBM's Red Hat, the situation has become increasingly complex and difficult to face. No third party can effectively monitor RHEL compliance with the GPL agreements, since customers live in fear of losing their much-needed service contracts. Red Hat's legal department has systematically refused SFC's requests in recent years to set up some form of monitoring by SFC. (For example, we asked to review the training materials and documents that RHEL salespeople are given to convince customers to buy RHEL, and Red Hat has not been willing to share these materials with us.) Nevertheless, since SFC serves as the global watchdog for GPL compliance, we welcome reports of RHEL-related violations."
TL;DR: To be sure they were complying, marketing department is as important as the legal one, and they were fearful of people taking a good look there.
Every time you ask why use busybox for userland utilities its always some bullshit reason around security or resource usage that doesn't hold water.
My time is more valuable than shaving off a few milliseconds running gimped core utilities with major functionality missing on a non embedded system.