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> So the solution would be to sever the link between fedora and red hat?

The expressions "cutting off the nose to spite the face" and 'throw the baby out with the bathwater" come to mind.

..I've not seen hard numbers but I wouldn't be surprised of RH *directly* spends low-eight-figure sums [0] on Fedora [1], and several times that indirectly [2]. Annually.

Point being, "Severing the link" would effectively be the end of Fedora as we know it.

[0] More than the annual cap of MPEG-LA's licensing regime.
[1] Mostly in the form of salaries, but there's also a sizeable IT (ie equipment+hosting+bandwidth) budget too.
[2] eg folks working on RHEL or Linux itself, virtualization, GCC, GNOME, Freedesktop, and many more upstream projects that make up a substantial chunk of Fedora's new features and use Fedora as their main proving grounds.