Then there was Microsoft's odd about-face. It partnered with long-time nemesis -- and Red Hat rival -- Novell. I believed the move was a thinly veiled plot to knock Linux leader Red Hat down a few pegs.
If IBM cared about quality rather than alleged "cost savings" (cutting corners), it would assign more IBM staff to Fedora, but instead the exact opposite happened, with the likes of Cotton and Miller removed from the project
