Red Hat Is Not a Company Anymore, Amid Bluewashing and Mass Layoffs It's Merely IBM "Division" or "Brand" or "Product"
Singaporean site channelling American news sites:
Earlier today we saw people debating whether systemd was an IBM/Red Hat product or something controlled by Microsoft (GitHub)... or led by Microsoft employees (now Microsoft proxy). The truth is a bit complicated because systemd is not "an init system" or "just required inside the login manager in KDE" (it's always advertised as one thing, then it eats everything around it, just like in GNOME).
So let's start by clarifying that last month many Red Hat employees ceased to be Red Hat. They're just IBM and some got "reassigned" (or even relocated). Red Hat as a company is merely a delusion that is falling apart at this point, especially its culture and policies.
Those IBM (former "Red Hat") employees must view Microsoft as a partner of IBM because, after all, they are "IBM employees 100% of the time". To reject Microsoft would be... bad.
This means that systemd at this point is sort of like IBM/Microsoft thing. GAFA (not GAFAM) finds some ways around it sometimes (Chromebooks, for instance, reject it).
Talking about "Red Hat" like it's still 'a thing' (or autonomous company) is living in the past. █