Absolutely, most of the work being done is for self serving reasons, which happen to be shared by a number of organizations. Due to the GPL "infection", though

Absolutely, most of the work being done is for self serving reasons, which happen to be shared by a number of organizations. Due to the GPL "infection", though, the bullshit can only go so far. If it went too far, somebody would make a "ReDoIx" fork/distribution from the unbroken parts, and build something that people could tolerate. I started with Slackware Linux in the mid 90s, jumped to RedHat for a while, couldn't figure out what to make of "Fedora", so I jumped to Ubuntu. While both my current and previous employer use RedHat in production (the previous employer was on Debian until being acquired by BigCo), I have no problem with jumping again when something better comes around. I guess business-to-business supported software has to come with a certain level of bullshit or FUD.