I am thinking this might end up hurting Red Hat more then many people think. I worked at Red Hat in global support in the RHEL 5/6 era and the developers were v

I am thinking this might end up hurting Red Hat more then many people think. I worked at Red Hat in global support in the RHEL 5/6 era and the developers were very opinionated and the dedication to Open Source amongst developers especially was almost cult like. Many developers were brilliant, and it wasn't uncommon to hear that they took the role with Red Hat earning substantially less then their previous roles so they could have 20-50% work time dedicated to their open source project. Also Red Hat would be fairly flexible and many worked offsite, so were able to have a cheaper cost of living. Many times these open source project wasn't even part of the RHEL / paid offerings, however it was obvious that management liked having a team of brilliant engineers on the book to throw at troubleshooting serious issues. When the largest customers would have a serious ongoing problem, they would often demand these engineers, who would often be thrown in a room with engineers from all the other vendors to "Fix It". I wonder if these people are going to start to leave and need to be retained at higher salaries. If this would then cause a loss of talent that will affect the ability to support those highest value customers. If this ends up costing Red Hat more in the long run.