Deep Red: The Beginning of the End of a Familiar Open Source Business Model?

I heard it was a surprise to almost everyone at RedHat.

In the sale of a corporate entity to another corporate entity there are always lots of sets of competing (false?) binary opposites: the vested, and un-vested. the contracted, and the uncontracted. The knowledge workers and the cleaners.

You should not assume there is a single binary choice feeling here. I could imagine a contract cleaner in Red Hat facilities checking out how well IBM pay cleaners, and deciding they prefer IBM, or go to another job. A vested knowledge worker, who is looking at both realizing their vesting state and acquiring a huge tax bill might have more than one view.

A new hire, who dreams of working in IBM Zurich might rub their hands with glee.

"it depends"