IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure
A "Senior Consultant at Red Hat" (according to his Microsoft profile, the sole profile linked to his post) published this one yesterday:
Can Red Hat not comprehend that promoting buzzwords and Microsoft (proprietary, surveillance) might be off-putting to its target "audience"? This worsens the brand. That's like some vegetarian food giant promoting "ethical meat" or "elephant-riding trips".
Based on his 'Microsoft resume' (Microsoft LinkedIn), he's not a bad person, but Sohidur Rahman can leave some readers with a bad taste in their mouths. People typically go to GNU/Linux in order to avoid Microsoft, not to embrace it through a 'reseller' such as IBM.
Speaking for myself, that seriously lessens the incentive to visit Red Hat's site at all. I've already given up on many sites, mostly because they've published LLM slop.
Published this week in one such site:
LLM slop of course:
LLM slop might actually be more benign than Microsoft promotion. █