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by devnonymous 3895 days ago
The direction in which the technology evolves. That's also the reason why Red Hat hires a lot of upstream developers[1]. It is easier to tailor your services and offer better support (ie: the revenue stream for Red Hat) for OSS when the developers who write it are on your payroll.

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions
  http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/red-hat-leads-open-source-contributions-to-kernel