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when I say IBM is probably not involved in this decision. They may be, but I don't think so. IBM mostly staying out of Red Hat business decisions might have be
by spicyusername 3y ago
when I say IBM is probably not involved in this decision. They may be, but I don't think so.
IBM mostly staying out of Red Hat business decisions might have been true while folks like Jim Whitehurst and Paul Cormier, members of the old guard, were still in leadership positions, but I don't think it's true anymore.
Over the 4 years since the acquisition, I have heard from many Red Hatters that things have continuously eroded, day after day.
And is that very surprising? Something like this was inevitable, given IBMs track record with other acquisitions.
Nothing gold can stay.
- fader 3y agoSame here. It's anecdotal but I have a decent number of colleagues who ended up at Red Hat over the years. For the first year after the acquisition they were excited and saying things like "IBM is going to change its culture to be more like Red Hat". A year or two after, they stopped saying that. And now a lot of them are actively looking to move on because they don't want to work in IBM's culture.