> RedHat itself makes money by charging for support on work made by thousands of other coders outside the company Linux is not developed by thousands of volunt

> RedHat itself makes money by charging for support on work made by thousands of other coders outside the company Linux is not developed by thousands of volunteers on their free time in their garage. At least 85% of commits to the Linux kernel are from corporates (AMD, Intel, Broadcom, RedHat, etc). Linux is free and open source code, but very largely written by people who are paid to do so, by companies that need to somehow make a profit. RedHat amounts to roughly 20% of these corporate commits, and that's counting in the share of other corporates that frankly mainly only contribute work for their own drivers. I see paying for RHEL as being 50% for support / 50% for sponsoring Linux development as a whole.