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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.

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

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.

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

Red Hat is still largely independent of IBM.

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.

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