> Is this really true? It seems to me that a lot of the people who control the direction of Linux might work at RedHat and IBM, but that can change. It has in t

> Is this really true? It seems to me that a lot of the people who control the direction of Linux might work at RedHat and IBM, but that can change. It has in the past and it will in the future, billion$ acquisitions don't make them immune. There's a history of companies simply acquiring the competition: 1) Ansible was written by a former Red Hat employee, and then Red Hat simply acquired his company. 2) Centos was an open source alternative to RHEL, and then Red Hat simply acquired the company.