> And it took a long time to get Rocky Linux to where Rakuten Mobile needed it. “To get Rocky Linux to deliver on the same performance of Red Hat for us was a 1

> And it took a long time to get Rocky Linux to where Rakuten Mobile needed it. “To get Rocky Linux to deliver on the same performance of Red Hat for us was a 13-month process. It was not trivial… there are so many tweaks you have to do… and we took all of these tweaks we've done and we gave them back to the [Rocky Linux] community,” said Amin. Sounds like they worked with the developer of Rocky Linux for 13 months to get the realtime kernel where it needed to be, and I would assume the author did not work for free and was compensated by Rakuten. "We decided to move to fully open source software and paid the author to customize it for us and released our customizations as open source" doesn't sounds very leachy to me.