Summary: IBM broke its promise, which it made a day or so after an important Techrights exposé with a wide reach; Open Source dot Com is still dead and it all started around the time IBM laid off loads of Red Hat staff, including key Fedora people and key LibreOffice people (IBM's abandonment of LibreOffice has gone even further since then^*, not to mention betrayal of the GPL/Linux)

_____ ^* As an associate puts it, IBM used to support Linux but it seems that it was due to people in the leadership positions, specifically ones that valued money over ideology. Now there seem to be Microsofters in their place and they are dyed-in-the-wool ideologues willing to throw away billions of dollars per year just to push their rotten agenda built around their backwards and defective product line. The thread about Lotus Notes complicates matters from that time though. Twenty years ago, IBM was making money hand over fist from its Linux investments. I'd call Free Software proponents pragmatists and the money-losing, ransomware-hosting Microsofters as ideologues.