[EdwardDiego]

Don't forget Red Hat, a company that makes it living from FOSS, apparently now also hates FOSS...

[max1truc]

Yeah, but the Linux Foundation is, well, about Linux, which is GNU GPL licensed I think... I seems to me the friendliest "enemy" on this list.

[dmos62]

Author points out that Red Hat killed CentOS, which had a significant community.

[prepend]

There’s multiple angles. I think RedHat is more for PR for IBM.

I don’t think it’s binary in that RedHat is owned by a company that has other motivations than when RedHat was independent.

[akagusu]

IBM bought RedHat to control the second most important piece of software that makes part of major Linux distributions.

[EdwardDiego]

Red Hat is still largely independent of IBM.

[prepend]

True, but I think there’s “cancel risk” (or whatever you call it) to IBM were RedHat to do something like sell software to ICE or whatever is an action that people boycott/campaign on.

People were threatening Microsoft because of GitHub’s actions.

I think it’s reasonable that a lawyer at IBM identified this area to message whatever is supposed to be right and talked with RedHat to coordinate signing or whatnot.

I think it’s weird that corporations make these kinds of moral/ethical statements.

[busterarm]

RedHat has been on the road it's on long before the acquisition by IBM.