For what it's worth:

* Engineering, marketing, and most of sales are still Red Hat (different employer, different benefits etc.)

* IT and some smaller sales teams are moving to IBM

* Over the years some teams were exchanged between the companies, for example AI went from IBM to Red Hat and middleware went the other way round.

You may say this is simply boiling the frog, but Red Hat is still employing thousands of people.

Now the IBM has the majority on FreeDesktop, like they own it. They can "extinguish" everything they ever want to.

Many, many people are still in a state of denial.

IBM did this correctly.

IBM develops and sells Storage Products, so we are going to take the engineering teams that development and maintain those storage products because, you know, it just makes sense.

We maintain and develop Power, etc. so it only makes sense that we move all development for RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible, Satellite, etc on Power, etc to IBM because, you know, it makes sense.

Why do we have two HR, Legal, etc teams? Those teams are joining Red Hat Jan 1, because, you know, it makes sense.

And so on and so on, and many Red Hatters just said, "Yea that does make sense".

Suddenly, someone pointed out that in a year and half span, 1/4th of the company will move to Red Hat leaving Engineering, Sales, and Support and 1/3rd of Sales is moving as well and, only then, did the rest of Red Hat say, "Holy Shit!"