I am learning about community-based Linux distros as they are my preferred choice compared to corporate ones. And when I get to Fedora, what I see from the fence is a sofisticated, well-supported OS.
However, seeing that it is sponsored by the Red Hat corporation, the question arises: could Red Hat eventually take control of the project? I suppose the answer comes down to how much weight Red Hat actually has on the development of said distro. From what I know, it has employees dedicated full-time to it.
Let’s rephrase the question and say that the Fedora project ditched Red Hat from its development due to some irrepairable decision; how viable would the continuation of the OS development be as compared to, for example, Debian, which is also community-based but, as far as I know, has no such backing from a corporation?
Please, note that, while I am indeed a Debian user, I am not trying in any way to shit on Fedora. I myself am curious to try it out as I have recently arrived to Linux.
Red Hat has a lot of control but it’s open source we don’t need to trust them. In terms of security Fedora is doing better than Debian and Arch, and in my experience RPM-based distros have been the best I’ve used.
If you’re concerned you can always use OpenSUSE Leap. I would use it if I needed to distrohop for some reason, I’d just need to figure out what to do about RPM fusion.