Yeah, I had the same reaction (billions even!) FWIW, I can easily imagine how OP arrived at that number, but when it comes to "corporations" some people believ

Yeah, I had the same reaction (billions even!) FWIW, I can easily imagine how OP arrived at that number, but when it comes to "corporations" some people believe that applying any random fast and loose math. The type of math that says: - Redhat == RHEL (+CentOS/Fedora) - RHEL ships GNOME - Redhat "made" 6 billion in revenue in 2024 - Therefor: Redhat made millions (or billions) indirectly of GNOME Trying to argue against that is difficult because who the hell knows. How much money does Calculator.app make Apple on MacOS? How much does mspaint make Microsoft? Not many of RHEL customers are using RHEL for the desktop. I don't know the split, but RHEL is a very slow moving distro. It's Desktop experience is.. Extra Enterprise. None the less, someone could make the argument that RedHat wouldn't be able to sell their servers to as many customers as they are if they didn't have the desktop offering. Plus Some RedHat customers are using Fedora or CentOS as desktop even if not directly paying for it, they want to know that it's from their OS vendor. so using loose anti-corporate math, RedHat is making billions of GNOME and not contributing to it. Other examples of loose corporate math I read on reddit once "Apple is literally a 3 trillion dollar company. They can literally afford to hire a support person for every customer they have."