No doubt. I don’t think they take anybody’s advice.
Well, ultimately all wisdom comes from God. If they won’t get a clue from God either directly or indirectly they will hobble themselves. GNU/Linux ought to be a pip squeak operation. It isn’t. IIRC, half of web servers are GNU/Linux. FR is. (Hey Jim Rob, what do you think of the legacy of that crazy liberal Richard Stallman? :-)
If Red Hat put itself to tailoring supported Linuxes to the ATM market, it might find itself on, well, a rocket ship to greater success.