Not Hating Red Hat, Not Concern-Trolling Red Hat, Just Increasingly Concerned About What IBM Has Turned Red Hat Into
Red Hat's mission has changed
Red Hat was once a company that we respected, e.g. in the "Boycott Novell" days. Red Hat, unlike Novell, not only refused to engage in software patents (or patenting; it had participated in actions against European software patents); it openly blasted Microsoft for what it had been doing with patents.
Red Hat began to change or 'soften' (for the 'softers') around 2009, as we noted a few hours ago.
Having taken over Red Hat about a decade later, IBM made more bad moves than we can properly or exhaustively recall. It did compromise the freedom of RHEL and pretty much killed CentOS (except as a legacy thing with no compelling reason to adopt anymore). This is why Alma and Rocky exist.
There are also many layoffs at Red Hat (or PIPs), but neither IBM nor the media talk about that. We're meant to assume it's all sporadic and rather arbitrary.
IBM's current CEO was the person who urged the company to buy Red Hat (before he was CEO), but he does not seem to use Red Hat or understand Red Hat. He's just a boastful buzzword-dropping charlatan who lies to shareholders to prop up the price of IBM shares (typically with "AI" or "quantum").
Of course nobody can criticise him. People are talking about it right now [1, 2] after whole pages got deleted*. █
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* Some people pointed out he had gained weight. Fatness is apparently a race. Making fun of someone's obesity (sometimes known as "fat-shaming") is not OK if he or she is not white Caucasian. Because that would be considered racist. It is not a new problem [1, 2, 3].