IBM Was Never the "Good Guy", Just a Self-Serving and Opportunistic Money- and Power-Hungry Monopolist, Living Off of Taxpayers' Money (Government Contracts)
Not much has changed. IBM is a bad company. The Nazi Party of Germany was its second-biggest client at one point and now it's looking to profit from the work of slaves.
IT IS not unreasonable to say that without IBM, there would be no Microsoft. The reason Microsoft got off the ground was Bill Gates' mother being inside IBM, based on privilege (family "pedigree", not any actual accomplishments). Gates' first company had already gone bankrupt and he had been arrested several times. This high-schooler, who never even finished college, was no success story and the so-called "business acumen" boiled down to crime, not excellence.
This past week we saw more condemnations of IBM, which turned RHEL into proprietary software almost exactly a year ago. In effect, IBM privatised the work of unpaid volunteers or slaves. The FSF, which had been taking IBM money (or Red Hat money, like many other organisation in that domain), has said absolutely nothing about that.
The commonly-used CentOS will be "End-of-life" (EOL) in a few days. No patches after Sunday. IBM hopes that some businesses which wrongly assumed RHEL would stay free - at least in the licence sense - will end up becoming paying clients, in effect lining the pockets of IBM's under-performing executives at the expense of all those "slaves" in fake "communities" like Fedora, led by IBM staff and controlled by IBM.
Free software is under attack. Copyleft is under attack. Those sorts of attacks are often maliciously disguised as "manners".
Slavery is slavery, no matter if it involves cotton slaves or overworked unpaid volunteers, who get rewarded in panda-themed NFTs (i.e. worthless nonsense) as they build a closed system for people who never even used GNU/Linux and take home 8-digit salaries. █