Thank you for the detailed response. Yes, this thread is about Red Hat, so the reference seems appropriate :) I don't envy what the Red Hat marketing people ha

Thank you for the detailed response. Yes, this thread is about Red Hat, so the reference seems appropriate :) I don't envy what the Red Hat marketing people have to go through, although I do think it's slightly self-inflicted at times. They generally invest huge amounts in, as you put it, altruistic improvements to Linux, yet get criticised harshly by the community for falling back to a position that is still multiple times better for free and open source software than, say, Microsoft's or Amazon's position. It makes me feel strange to promote marketing at the expense of development, but I genuinely think that their PR is profoundly lacking: things like CentOS stream were pretty good generally for the FOSS ecosystem but came across more as a betrayal of FOSS than a bequest to FOSS.