IBM is Destroying Red Hat (by Extension, It Also Harms GNU/Linux)
This morning - i.e. around midnight for me - I caught up with about 40 new comments "regarding IBM layoffs" (plenty posted overnight). There was not much new substance or any truly important information in them, it was mostly a bunch of opinions and rants.
The above repeats the widely-spread claim that IBM overpaid for Red Hat and McKinsey is destroying IBM with truly terrible advice/guidance. I'm personally concerned about what IBM did to Fedora, seeing that since it took over Red Hat there was almost no community left in Fedora and the "planet" is almost void of any content other than the official Fedora blogs and some IBM staff. It's even more dead than OpenSUSE.
Of course Red Hat layoffs carry on this month, even if the media barely mentioned these.
IBM has taken over GNOME (not just funded it) and from contributions to GTK it has advanced to force-feeding Wayland in spite of many known shortcomings (no, Wayland isn't ready for lots of legitimate and longtime users).
What IBM has done to Red Hat and Fedora has been a net negative. IBM is where things come to die, more so in the past decade or so.
We never fancied IBM buying Red Hat (we were sceptical right from the very start); Red Hat should not have been sold, even if there was money for shareholders to make out of this "exit". █