The founder of both Rocky Linux and CentOS tells the tale it his own word in a podcast https://changelog.com/podcast/427 https://changelog.com/podcast/427 My u

The founder of both Rocky Linux and CentOS tells the tale it his own word in a podcast https://changelog.com/podcast/427 https://changelog.com/podcast/427 My understanding is that over time RH became the main maintainer of CentOS organically, so they were fronting both the direct costs (dev time) and indirect costs (people using CentOS as a cheaper RHEL).