i've been a long time lurker, non-commentator, oops. i just do most of my work on cent/rhel/rocky/oracle and i felt comfortable enough to join and comment for once

Of fuck off. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a paid troll or whatever you’re implying. That poster is 100% right, Red Hat has been a champion of Linux and a huge contributor responsible for a large number of the current features in Linux (systemd, gnome, etc)