Red Hat didn't create a new thing from whole cloth, open source it, and prosper. They spotted an opportunity to sell a version of an open source thing to comme

Red Hat didn't create a new thing from whole cloth, open source it, and prosper. They spotted an opportunity to sell a version of an open source thing to commercial customers. This, in turn, made product development out of what looks on the surface like open source contribution. That worked really well for Red Hat, but the wrong lesson to take away is that there is big money in open sourcing software.