Fuck AI

That's a little disingenuous.

Redhat markets support and professional responses in the form of adjusted builds to CVEs on an enterprise distro of Linux.

I mean, yeah, they absolutely technically profit, and open-source is the root of their classic product, so you're not wrong there; and I'm not saying so. You're framing it as if they do nothing but take the source, schlepp it out, and collect protection money and keep it themselves.

This kind of characterization completely sidesteps an important truth about open-source devel: everyone involved with projects like the kernel, for instance, work at a shop like redhat and are paid to do the open source work.

Let me say it again: this corp who is profiting off of open source happens to also be donating killed, paid labour to open source. Look at the leaders of the kernel dev effort and you'll see google, arm, rh, Intel, and suse, all paying for the labour to keep it going.

Stop characterizing them with language suggesting they're slimy leeches. They make bad decisions a-plenty, but the biggest thing their involvement provides is continuity and lifestyle security for people maintaining what you hold dear.

Condemn them for their stupid decisions - Ansible, Systemd, IBM buying redhat and accidentally speeding up their enshittification because #ibm, etc. But given how little the foundations support this project (the only one I looked at: I'm only slightly less lazy than the person who didn't even do this) I suspect their cozy little arrangement where they make bank and you get free software to play with is benefitting you more than you'll admit.