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Meanwhile the bluewashing seems to be keeping a steady pace. https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/22/IBM_is_Not_Done_Destroying_Red_Hat_Wait_Till_October_1_2006_Mor

• setopt 2mo ago
  I haven’t followed the news. Sounds like IBM is bad news for Fedora long term?
  • trentor 2mo ago
    I don't want to be hyper critical but was there ever a project that got better after being acquired by IBM?
    • xorcist 2mo ago
      While probably true, I'm not sure how much Fedora can be owned really. We should give credit where credit is due though: IBM has, together with Intel, Red Hat, and a few others, been very supportive of the Linux ecosystem since early on. Their scalability work, their GPLing of code, and upstreaming of said code, did a lot for people to look at Linux seriously. There are obviously people inside IBM who understand this stuff. So there should be hope.
• TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
  Techrights are hard to take seriously, the site's author has such a bad case of that polemic tendency that he lost a libel case because he wouldn't stop harassing someone (https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063).
  • Vegemeister 2mo ago
    In the UK, a country known for its lack of press freedom. And the plaintiff was Matthew Garret, who has a past record of changing the words of other people's comments on his blog. The allegations of sockpuppetry are not inconsistent with his character. That said, I recognize that the prose on that website is highly schizo-coded, so it should probably be considered unreliable on that account.