No surprise with this, people who has been following IBM over the years knew this day would come.

>Red Hat's "way" or "culture" or "open source org" is going away, step by step

I went through this and it started 5 years after purchase by IBM and it took another 3 or 4 years before everything was completely gone. FWIW, I have sense left IBM.

It took IBM ~0 days to layoff 30% of Confluent upon deal close despite continual reinforcement that any RIFs would be coming months later.