Here is Cringely's take on it:
https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/

On 2018-10-29 5:46 p.m., Hartmut W Sager wrote:
> IBM to buy RedHat for $34 billion.  Comments?  (I anticipate an avalanche of
> comments.)
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