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.
Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.
Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM