Thank you for taking the time to respond. For me there was one decisive moment that changed my perspective on IBM: when they joined the recent crusade against Stallman.

You see, when Red Had started, they very much needed our (let's call it 'Linux community') help. At the beginning people made fun of RH, there were jokes running it's for the people who can't really use Linux, their initial security history was quite bad etc. It was unthinkable that at the time of Bob Young etc. they could attack RMS (and he wasn't much different then, maybe worse even in social terms), not to mention the fact that they were making money selling the software that he inspired to create or just created. Now that the power balance shifted, they felt more courageous and decided to follow the hating crowd. When you think about it a bit, it's really sad.