[Meme] The Big News is That Big Blue Has Driven Away Tons of Essential Engineers and Managers of Red Hat
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-09-15 16:05:25 UTC
- Modified: 2022-09-15 16:05:25 UTC
Big Blue (IBM) has successfully crushed CentOS and Fedora (still ongoing); but the real news or the untold story is, many top managers have fled the company, as did high-profile engineers (3 CEOs in 3 years, new managers came from Microsoft, brain drain aplenty)
Some cannot and will not return; they quit or got fired (lots of them, even the "chief people officer")
Summary: The above story from a Microsoft media operative in a Microsoft- and IBM-funded site distracts from the simple fact that there's a longstanding HR crisis at Red Hat; we wrote about it over the years and salaried IBM staff actively tried to suppress links to our writings
To some extent, the
relentless attacks from IBM/Microsoft against Free software have driven away talented
technical staff that cared about Software Freedom. Is IBM trying to dissolve what it bought?
