Red Hat is the largest funder of the Fedora Projects because it serves as a base for other things they make and support aside from their enterprise distros. Being the largest single funder gets you the most pull on the direction of said projects. They also have Red Hat employees directly running or contributing to various projects and upstream commits.
The actual community boards and such are independent of Red Hat otherwise. Similar to how Valve suddenly has a bunch of pull in the direction of the projects they’ve been directly funding and contributing to the past few years, Red Hat informs the independent community board with commits and contributions.
This is how the FOSS community works in general though. ‘Project A’ could be widely used in the community, but generally have fairly slow development. ‘Company A’ comes in and offers to fund feature development or big hunts, or maybe directly contribute fixes because they rely on this project. That project then either has the choice to turn down that extra help that could greatly benefit the project, or take that help, and as part of that deal, accept that ‘Company A’ now has some pull in the direction of the project.
Kind of a majority rule via resource commitment.


Vibe coded? You know how this works?
Good luck with that. I look forward to your future posts about it.
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