I think there's a few large players that see linux as a threat to their market share in the consumer markets. While only about 4% of consumers use linux, that's up 1% in about a year and my bet is that most of those users are under 30. If they lose the demographic, they lose the future of their OS businesses, and the information / data pipeline it produces. So I wouldn't be surprised if corporate glowniggers are sticking their hands in linux development and the propaganda behind it, and particularly in the consumer end of it (let's not start a redhat system d thread). I mean... why wouldn't they? And licensing is just one aspect.

Plus I've heard no compelling argument for wayland tbh, and x11 works and is well documented.