IBM Turns Smart, Hard-Working People Into "Dinobabies" and Discards Them
Old horse with broken back
I was born into an IBM era and grew up in an "IBM-compatible" era (after antitrust etc.) like many kids of the earlier 80s. IBM was either respected or loathed, not both. Some people felt neutral about IBM and if they had experienced or used a computer at work, something at work was likely "IBM" (servers, keyboards, screens, desk-top computers aka "work-stations" and so on).
In 2001 I purchased a used IBM monitor and felt proud to say that I used a refurbished IBM. It gave more screen space to my otherwise small and underpowered laptop (just 32 megabytes of RAM).
IBM did a lot of important work for and on Linux. It also worked towards some GNU goals and helped sponsor the FSF. Later on IBM was advancing Open Document Format (ODF), which is still a thing and still very much appreciated (other companies such as Sun contributed a lot as well).
Seeing what IBM does to its "old" workers (typically the smartest people in the company as the company cannot attract the brightest young people) and to Red Hat - the company, the people, the products - one cannot admire IBM. Even many of its own workers think it is gross and disrespectful. IBM is using them, so they just use (milk, exploit, do the bare minimum for) IBM and prepare to quit or be laid off.
Companies with morale so low have no chance of surviving. █