RedHat is a company. Companies exist for the sole purpose of making
money. Every action by any company -- literally every single action,
ever -- is motivated by that goal.

The question you should be asking is: How does Red Hat believe this
move is going to make them money?

Those were statements of fact. What follows is merely my opinion.

Right now, anybody can easily get for free the same thing Red Hat
sells, and their #1 competitor is taking their products, augmenting
them, and reselling them. If you think Red Hat perceives this as being
in their financial interest, I think you are out of your mind.

SRPMs will go away and be replaced by an ever-moving git tree. Red Hat
will make it as hard as legally possible to rebuild their commercial
releases. The primary target of this move is Oracle, but Scientific
Linux will be collateral damage.

I consider all of this pretty obvious, but perhaps I am wrong. I hope I am.

 - Pat