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> It's not Red Hat's fault, I blame IBM for the company's recent Linux code licensing changes and all the misery it unleashed. Even if we were to agree 100% th
by mort96 3y ago
> It's not Red Hat's fault, I blame IBM for the company's recent Linux code licensing changes and all the misery it unleashed.
Even if we were to agree 100% that nobody at Red Hat wants to do this and it's all IBM's fault, surely we can fault Red Hat for selling to IBM in the first place? I mean, everyone and their dog predicted the decay of Red Hat once the acquisition was announced. Surely the fact that they still went through with it, and therefore these all-too-predictable consequences, is on Red Hat?
- RunningDroid 3y agoI'm not familiar with the details, but I'd expect that the people who arranged the sale no longer work at Red Hat.
- FireBeyond 3y agoJim Whitehurst, who was Red Hat's CEO through the deal planning, resigned from IBM 2 years and 1 day after the acquisition was finalized.
- pridkett 3y ago…and Whitehurst was pretty explicit that he left because the board gave the CEO job to Arvind Krishna[0]. He also forfeited a large stock award when he did that. [0] https://wraltechwire.com/2021/07/07/whitehurst-stepping-down-from-ibm-wants-to-be-a-ceo-again/ https://wraltechwire.com/2021/07/07/whitehurst-stepping-down...
- op00to 3y agoYou can’t just ignore a very good offer to sell your public company. Shareholders will have your head. Jim had to take Ginny’s offer to the Board, and they decided to sell. That’s life in the big city.
- mort96 3y agoI don't understand what you're saying. I said it's on Red Hat that they decided to sell to IBM. I didn't say that the CEO personally made that decision, the board of directors is obviously the part of the company which has the final say in such decisions.
- veidr 3y agoI don't think you two are disagreeing. op00to is just pointing out that being a public company (like taking VC money) has consequences that can't be avoided. Those consequences include being acquired, if the offer is good enough. Everybody knew that IBM buying Red Hat was the end of the Red Hat that had existed up to that point. But accepting the buyout wasn't the decision; the decision was to go public in the first place. Which, of course, was Red Hat's decision. So everybody is correct.