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Professor Michael Geist has just tweeted -- quite correctly -- that: "According to the US, over 4.3 billion people live in countries with intellectual property laws worthy of complaint. Many of the countries are poor. The US primary issue for them is demand for stronger patent protection for pharmaceutical drugs."
At this point it would be rather foolish to assume that IBM will let Red Hat just "do its own thing" or maintain its corporate culture, identity, projects etc.