IBM's Attack on the Community and on GPL/FSF is an Attack on Red Hat's Greatest Asset

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-08-03 11:09:27 UTC
Modified: 2021-08-03 11:22:49 UTC

IBM has no clue what it's doing (and it has lost someone who knew better, Mr. Allowhurst)

IBM attacks what it cannot understand (or cannot control)

Summary: Ever since IBM bought Red Hat it has repeatedly attacked the FSF (in a malicious and personified fashion), looking for its own 'copyright grab' whilst outsourcing loads of code to proprietary software monopolisers who attack the GPL; by doing so, IBM is destroying the value of what it paid more than 30 billion dollars for (IBM is governed by pretentious fools, according to IBM insiders; they've already lost Red Hat's longtime CEO and IBM's new President), so it's falling back on openwashing of IBM's proprietary software with help from the so-called 'Linux' Foundation

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IBM's Attack on the Community and on GPL/FSF is an Attack on Red Hat's Greatest Asset

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