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Are you aware the amount that Red Hat contributes to the kernel? Red Hat has more contributions to the upstream linux kernel (which every distro benefits from, RHEL or not) than just about any other corporation. The amount of testing and stability effort that goes into the kernel would be dramatically reduced without Red Hat, not to mention the code changes themselves.

Just to get a basic idea, [1] has some stats of kernel contributions for the 4.20 kernel, Red Hat had second most changesets accepted. Intel was first, although if you combined Red Hat + IBM then that would push Intel to second. And looking at the core kernel commits (ie ignoring things like device drivers, where hardware companies are making contributions solely for the purpose of supporting the hardware that they sell), the difference was even more skewed towards Red Hat (and interestingly, IBM as well).

And that's just the kernel itself, they're also the primary force behind plenty of other widely used projects (fedora is one of my favorite distros, systemd, for better or worse, it's still used by most distros, and as much as people like to hate on gnome, I have to say I've found it more stable and worry free compared to other options including modern KDE, and the list goes on). Maybe they are not the perfect role model but don't pretend they aren't giving a bunch back to the entire community in many ways.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/775440/