No, but they should. Jeff Geerling is one of these guys: https://xkcd.com/2347/
IBM might not make money off you or me, but they absolutely make money off people like Jeff. In some regards, that’s kinda their whole business
I'm not saying this is the morally right, "best" in the long term sense, or otherwise socially optimal choice, I'm just saying it's the standard IBM choice.
I bet they can’t. He’s hardly some code monkey churning out generic lines of code.
You see, you are just being sentimental about trying to save something you're nostalgic for. This MBA army can clearly justify with mountains of spreadsheets why this was the Correct Thing To Do to maximize shareholder value and profit.
My first Linux installation was a copy of Red Hat 4 (not RHEL 4, RedHat 4), circa 1996-ish. I remember bugging my mother for weeks to drive me to CompUSA and buy a copy. I am deeply nostalgic.