Doesn’t paid support to middlemen mitigate this problem? If Bigcorp pays Red Hat, Red Hat should fix the software and work with upstream to do so, thus making

Doesn’t paid support to middlemen mitigate this problem? If Bigcorp pays Red Hat, Red Hat should fix the software and work with upstream to do so, thus making the fix Red Hat’s problem. Red Hat knows how to work with upstream to get fixes merged long-term.