IBM is a Boys' Club
Aggressive company since its beginnings
HAVING just caught up with dei:fedoraproject.org, we see that the room has been pretty much dead for a month with only 2-3 people talking, and very seldom at that (mostly Justin W. Flory, sometimes Jona Azizaj). Yesterday we talked about how the IBM/Red Hat-connected GNOME Foundation has just fired only women (almost 100% of the GNOME Foundation Board is men). It does not seem like they genuinely care about women; it's all about "optics" to them.
Is it fair to conclude that the thin veil of diversity at IBM is getting so thin that it's already transparent, revealing the face of a man (or men)?
IBM is a thuggish company, no matter how many PR platitudes and marketing campaigns it "invests" in (to them, it's all just business). IBM and Fedora occasionally and habitually attack women. They cannot help themselves.
GNU/Linux has existed for 41 years. For 15 years it did fine without IBM. If IBM collapsed, the Red Hat engineers who work on GNU and Linux would simply work elsewhere (on the same projects). Yes, there's money in it. There are already alternatives and one of them was announced yesterday afternoon. RHEL alternatives inherit many clients left orphaned after IBM had basically killed CentOS and took RHEL proprietary. █