[Sanddancer]

Redhat unfortunately seems beyond reproach by many, even with all the bad behavior they've allowed under their watch. Ulrich Drepper was an employee of theirs during his most imfamous time as glibc maintainer. Their purchase of Cygnus scattered a lot of real interesting systems development tools, like the Insight debugger, to the wind. Unfortunately, they're one of the loudest mouths in the room, so a lot of their bullshit doesn't get called out, leaving everything worse for the wear.

[digi_owl]

And having them all under one (virtual) roof may be producing a echo chamber effect among them.

I can't seem to locate it now. But i seem to recall a video released within the last year so so that showed various people from within RH, regarding the history of Linux. And at one point one of them energetically declared "we won" in regards to some "unix war".

All in all the video gave the impression of a company culture that had the mentality that they could do no wrong.

[bonzini]

The "Unix wars" refers to the fights among Linux and the various proprietary Unixes (AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Solaris etc.). "We won" referred to Linux, not Red Hat. Of all the proprietary Unixes, only Solaris is still alive and it's partly open source too.