Geerling is one of those guys who speaks with authority, mainly by not speaking unless he's sure he's an authority on the matter. I've solved many problems by just following his youtube antics and blog posts. He's also kind of an Hn rockstar and lurks here on occassion.
I think for me, this whole thing hurts the most because I know SO many people in the Red Hat ecosystem. From Fedora, to Ansible, to RHEL, to Kubernetes/Openshift people... I've worked closely with so many.
And there are still many who work there, and I know the words I wrote will sting for some of them. I don't hold any of this against them.
It's just... painful to see the Red Hat that I remember from a decade ago, slowly becoming, what? IBM-ified? There's still a lot of good in that company, but it is being blotted out over time.
NOBODY expects the RaspberryPi YouTube guy! His chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and absurdly impractical Kubernetes clusters. His TWO weapons.. etc.
