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I don't think that's right; Red Hat, culturally, does much more community engagement and open source development. I know several RH developers from working on Ceph-adjacent things and RH has been much more open to contributions and collaborations in academia and industry, plus they funded a significant chunk of research around storage in quite a few labs around the area. IBM never had that kind of culture imo, I would take RH anyday.

From what I know Red Hat devs are also very open in other areas of OS research and development, from the new io_uring, eBPF, etc. IBM is trying to stamp it out, but it's still there.

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Maybe GP is referring to IBM having an equity stake in Redhat since the late '90s? Or, maybe because they both generate the majority of their revenue via support contracts with the same sorts of customers buying said contracts?