Seems to me they're way better than Oracle and CiQ. They're pretty much the Valve of Linux servers.
Valve requires you to have an account in order to use Steam, if you publish a game you pay a fee and have all sorts of tools, and the option to rent multiplayer servers through Steam Works.
Red Hat requires you to have an account in order to access the RHEL repos (for free) or you can add your own repositories. Offers all sort of tools for you to manage and deploy infrastructure.
Both contribute money and resources to large open source projects, and the benefits are distributed to everyone. Want to stay out of anything related to them? I don't think you even can because you don't really care about it, it is possible though.
>But muh CentOS fiasco
Happened in 2019, let it go, CentOS Stream has been brought and it is way better, CentOS was a free RHEL version that received RHEL fixes AFTER. Now it receives updates and bug fixes BEFORE RHEL does.
>But muh beta testing
You community distro and maintainers get whatever they can though, I don't see them complaining.
>But le evil corporation wants to conquer Linux
Uhhh... Are you living in 1996?
Corporations have steered Linux development and funding for decades. Linux Torvalds has been on the payroll since forever. What do you think the Linux Foundation is for?
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership
Also the 3D stack is corporate.
https://www.khronos.org/
Community open source works alongside corporate or competes against it.

>>105996337 (OP)
Because troonduke told us to hate them

>>105996337 (OP)
>What do you think the Linux Foundation is for?
Funnelling money to woke projects which are probably fronts for the owners to grift from.

>destroying FOSS projects with CoC wokeops, while profiting off RHEL support contracts
>systemd
>GNOME

>>105996644
>SYSTEMD
>SELINUX
>PIPEWIRE
>GNOME
>BTRFS
>XFS
>FLATPAK
>BOOTC
>COCKPIT
>RPM
>WAYLAND

>>105996644
>Le evil red hat profiting off contracts, while poor Oracle (a company with way bigger income), CiQ, Canonical, Cloud Linux, SUSE, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM (ironically) and VMware can't

>>105996337 (OP)
The only advantage of CentOS compared to other distributions was that it was supported for 10 years and it was a stable RHEL clone, now it's just 5 and I wouldn't use it in prod so I'm sticking with Debian.
>What do you think the Linux Foundation is for?
Spreading LGBTQ, inclusivity, feminism and diversity.

>>105996947
>"now it's just 5 and I wouldn't use it in prod"
>Changes to another distro that also has 5 year support

>>105996337 (OP)
>Seems to me they're way better than Oracle
Everybody is better than Oracle lol

>>105996916
Doesn't IBM own Red Hat?

>>105997025
Yes, but doesn't mean your own solution catalogue can't compete between itself. IBM offers Cloud and Watson, which can compete against RHEL AI and RHEL.

>>105996947
What is Rocky Linux

>>105996959
I didn't change from CentOS to Debian. I've been on Debian all along but the 10 year support was one of the reasons I have been experimenting with CentOS on and off in the past. It was quite funny, because around the time they announced the discontinuation of the 10 year support and announced CentOS Stream was the time I was seriously considering switching my main server to CentOS.

Needless to say that didn't happen kek.