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The IBM MBAs have finally taken over Redhat. Anything to squeeze another dollar out, even if it's counterproductive in the long term.

We knew it would happen. Honestly I'm surprised it took this long.

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Said MBAs are in it for their annual bonuses. You'll see this in many companies today: go-nowhere/soon-to-be-canceled projects are launched -> bonuses are awarded -> people move on -> rinse and repeat. Only fools stick around for long-term gains. On the other hand - maybe the workers have finally cracked the corporate secret.

I hear a lot of this sentiment, but from what I see both internally at rh and news publicly available there is nothing to back up what you are saying. The decision seems to have been made by many long-tenured folk. So what if the opposite of what you’re saying is true?

I work with some long-tenured folks and am myself one (at a different open source company) and let me tell you that incentives are not the same as they were two decades ago -- and we've not sold out to fucking IBM.

Redhat people, as good as they may have been in the past, are now IBM people and if they aren't operating like IBM people they will be replaced by people who do.

Perhaps long-tenured folk that are now incentivized differently from how they were previously?

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