I saw this coming even before the acquisition. While Red Hat did help fund some excellent open source work, usually through acquisitions, they would never have

I saw this coming even before the acquisition. While Red Hat did help fund some excellent open source work, usually through acquisitions, they would never have been my first choice for partner support. Red hat is for companies that have no clue what they are doing and caters to executive management who wants their name in marketing so they can talk about how they helped make the company more successful so they can find a higher paying executive role at another large enterprise. Once a company has some descent Linux engineers and developers, they then switch to CentOS, Ubuntu, or some lighter weight distro. At that point, if you continue to engage with Red Hat, usually because some executive is getting kickbacks and has signed multi-year contracts, you just end up doing all the work yourself realizing that a lot of your problems are caused by Red Hat and that you'd be better off with another distro entirely.