IBM Slavery: Not a New Problem
ABOUT a century ago IBM profited from eugenics (against black people, imported as slave labour) and "remarkably little had changed," according to the "first African American software engineer at IBM" and his son (it took about 30 years for this to happen!!! IBM had hired no blacks!).
Basically, IBM is treating blacks no better than the Nazi Party (IBM's second-largest client at the time) treated cripples.
Fast-forward about 70 years and the DEI channel of Fedora - surprise, surprise! - discusses a lack of accessibility, impacting people with special needs (or disabilities):
Don't look up to IBM. In fact, IBM is perhaps the very worst role model.
Ongoing discussion (today):
The racist policies at IBM have been a common theme lately [1, 2]. Companies that wish to ban us from saying "master" or "slave" are perhaps the very worst culprits. They still have some "slaves" over at Fedora helping IBM's reputation laundering efforts; most of them (not the IBM staff at Fedora) do so for free. When IBM got rid of Ben Cotton it showed the world how much it valued Fedora staff (salaried). Cotton can only work for Fedora as an unpaid volunteer now. █