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> Linux distributions are obviously massive sprawling complex things

Just my perspective but I think this was also perhaps a product of the time when Red Hat really started growing, back when linux was a little more rough around the edges. These days it seems linux has enough polish that some (many?) corporations are happy to just use off the shelf ubuntu and call it a day and hope nothing breaks too badly.

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I think another thing that has changed is that big business is less suspicious of open source and are less likely to feel that all the software they use has to be licensed from someone.

I think it has dawned on people that it is impossible to avoid using open source.

This is definitely true. It’s also completely normalised to build a large commercial service on open source and not even contemplate if or how the upstream project is funded, or consider funding the upstream a serious cost.

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