Summary: Hostility from IBM (towards GNU's founder, Linux, etc.) has not paid off; it only emboldened front groups like the Linux Foundation to besiege communities and promote monopolies instead; now it means that a lot of Free software hackers lose their source of income

MANY people are now reading our old articles about Red Hat and about IBM because of the layoffs. GNU/Linux is growing and expanding, so why lay off Red Hat staff? That's a very legitimate question.

The company's "too many CEOs" syndrome (after 2 CEOs that were there for like 20 years) is always a bad sign. Jim AllowHurst left abruptly some years ago, barely bothering to explain why. Then his successor left as well. People only speculated about the reasons.

Based on Gemini statistics, many people read this article yesterday. It's about why Red Hat should never have been sold to IBM in the first place. AllowHurst made a big error and then left. ⬆