THE misuse of the term "community" is closely connected to the emergence of "openwashing" -- i.e. pretending proprietary is "open" or "transparent" and corporations are some kind of charities working for the public good. We've seen lots of examples of that over the past two years in particular. OSI has been taken over by this agenda.
"To properly judge IBM's position on software freedom (or human rights), one must assess both the past and the present (which, unlike the future, aren't an uncertainty)."In IBM's case, there's lots of "for Good" or "4Good"; there's also "embRACE" (trying to rewrite IBM's record on issues of race), "openPOWER" (openwashing) and manufactured "geek" cred.
To properly judge IBM's position on software freedom (or human rights), one must assess both the past and the present (which, unlike the future, aren't an uncertainty). One must go deeper than shallow things like the gender of the last CEO and race of the current one. IBM isn't as 'woke' as it wants people to think; working hard to eliminate particular metaphors isn't as commendable as these people wish for us to believe.
Recently, much attention was paid to the CentOS betrayal. We saw about dozen videos and close to 100 articles about this one subject alone (throughout December) and few writers brought up Fedora, asking the tough questions about the future of the project.
More on the CentOS issue can be found in this older video. There are also some articles about this subject, e.g.: