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Under IBM Management, Red Hat Has No Will to Survive

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Summary: Red Hat seems to be falling apart and now it recruits from the company least suitable as a source of workforce; this isn't some isolated incident but part of a long-going pattern or trend

THIS morning my wife told me about this latest blog post from Red Hat, which for some reason wasn't even listed in their blog's front page (it was only in RSS feeds at the time). This reinforced two worrying things about Red Hat: 1) many management-level people are leaving (and leaving a vacuum). 2) Red Hat is incapable of recognising its rival, so it's bringing potentially hostile people onboard. It's a simple vetting issue.



The video above covers a lot of background (Red Hat has had the latter issue for quite some time now; over a decade for sure!) and makes it very clear that it's not a matter or gender of race. It's about community, technology, and so on...

"As noted at the end of the video above, Red Hat now advertises its presence only in two places/sites, Microsoft LinkedIn and Microsoft GitHub. If that's not a troubling sign, what is?"As an associate put it this morning, "businesses are not being clever by hiring microsfoters. They are not hiring talent, rather the opposite and on top of that they are bringing in their worst opponent inside their perimeter."

We've been increasingly critical of Red Hat over the past year, partly due to issues covered in this wiki page. The issues range from patent policy to attacks on our community, typically while hypocritically bringing up social issues (which the accuser is vastly more culpable of).

As noted at the end of the video above, Red Hat now advertises its presence only in two places/sites, Microsoft LinkedIn and Microsoft GitHub. If that's not a troubling sign, what is?

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