IBM is Killing Red Hat's Portfolio - Including Linux - to Prop Up Ponzi Scheme ("AI")
Days ago: IBM CEO and CFO Make It Hotter in the Kitchen
Having already killed CentOS and mostly killed Fedora (not much going on there anymore; it's just IBM staff, no community), IBM also made RHEL proprietary and continues turning it into slop - same as Fedora as of late.
As noted in the sister site yesterday, they now sell Linux as "AI platform":
An associate of us interprets this as IBM dooming Linux or GNU/Linux. The only thing that matters to the executives at IBM (no, they don't use GNU/Linux!) is grifting by slop.
"IBM is where software goes to die," somebody wrote some hours ago. "Once IBM a purchases (not develops) a platform , or a successful software product , and it passes through the IBM doors, the slow erosion and degradation begins. No amount of AI can save it from demise. It will Only buy some more time until it is sold off , or tossed on the scrap heap."
Lots of comments posted months ago in "Red Hat Back-Office Team Moving To IBM From 2026" include this one from the Original Poster (OP):
"Culture has been dead for at least 1 year now," said Reddit user Purple_Afternoon 966. "The experience might be different depending on the department, but there is nothing left from the open culture praised. We have now micromanagement, decision making from middle management that clearly have no idea of what we do and how and trying to implement ideas that they read somewhere, with no context, data and not giving answer or addressing feedback."
We hear the same from Red Hat whistleblowers. IBM is killing Red Hat. There's not even much Red Hat staff left; IBM pushed out or "reassigned" so many. █