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I must have been asleep the day IBM bought Red Hat six years ago, because I had no idea.
The fact that you had no idea is pretty good evidence that IBM buying them has not changed much about them.
Or haven't been paying any attention, they almost immediately killed off centos
I was at a tech conference in Raleigh right after the announcement and the Red Hat folks were bummed.