The Exodus Continues: It's Already Hard Keeping Track of So Many Managers and Executives Who Left Red Hat Under IBM's 'Leadership' (in Attacking the Community)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-10-10 21:19:24 UTC
- Modified: 2022-10-10 21:19:24 UTC
Red Hat, the company with 3 CEOs in 3 years (after just 2 CEOs for two decades)
Summary: Red Hat seems to be crumbling; not only has it lost the community, it also lost a lot of important engineers (the layoffs aside) and countless managers, even high-level executives, who quietly left (Red Hat made that more apparent when it appointed replacements... sometimes people from Microsoft, which helps explain tasteless company policies, betraying what the company originally stood for)
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