IBM's Board is a Men's Club, Unlike the FSF's, But Red Hat/IBM Are Trolling the Community Using the "Diversity Shtick"
CoC-fighting over diversity to distract from their own failings
The above, which is also the latest, is just typical "damage control" by Justin W. Flory (trying to respond to a blunder which unfolded lately). Of course Matrix has its own share of accessibility issues and it's mostly used to outsource to even less accessible things, which are also proprietary spyware.
There are hardly any women in the Board of Red Hat (the second one was added almost 1.5 decades after the company had been founded) and not much has changed. IBM is even worse - barely any women there in 2024 (and they probably count cleaners as "diversity" quotas being met). Yet they had the audacity to blast the FSF over diversity - the FSF where about half the staff and board are female.
It can make an outsider truly sceptical if not outright cynical about whether "diversity" is really about true diversity or just some corporate ploy by which to remove opposition - effectively by disguising things as discrimination where double-standards are exceedingly prevalent, hypocrisy is abundant.
The family of IBM, the Watsons, treated women like dirt. They'd be arrested if they were not well connected, as noted in past articles, such as:
- Journey Back in History: Misconduct or Disorderly Conduct (Stuffing Money Down the Fronts of Stewardesses’ Blouses, According to Witness Account) by Arthur Watson of IBM (Founder’s Son and Former IBM Chief), Followed by Watson’s Admission and Resignation
- The ‘Access Watson Tapes’: Rare Richard Nixon Tape on Former IBM President and Son of IBM’s Founder Engaging in Sexual Abuse of Women
- Meet the IBM Watsons: Sponsors of Richard Nixon and Abusers of Women
- IBM (Red Hat) Lectured FSF That It Needed More Diversity, But Was It Looking at the Mirror? IBM and Red Hat Are Even Less Diverse.
- Real Feminism is Grassroots, Not a Corporate Ploy (to Improve Image and Sales)
- Faked Diversity in ‘Men-Only Clubs’ (and Corporations)
- IBM Likes to Speak About Diversity in Order to Distract or Confuse People About IBM’s Past and Present
- Video: Removing Our Leaders Because of Diversity is Disingenuous and Hypocritical
If you value diversity, do not follow Red Hat and IBM. They don't even treat disabled people like they should [1, 2]. This is one of the very worst forms of discrimination, for a number of reasons and factors. █