One thing I'm reminded of is the huge role of Red Hat in maintaining loads of open-source software. They get to choose what direction "linux" is taking by simpl

One thing I'm reminded of is the huge role of Red Hat in maintaining loads of open-source software. They get to choose what direction "linux" is taking by simply having paid developers put in a lot of time writing and maintaining software that everyone then adopts. So Wayland will get adopted by most distributions, just like SystemD because Red Hat will invest in it.