I'm at a point now where I think this has just reached "conspiracy" levels. No amount of reasonable evidence could dissuade the people who think that IBM is micromanaging Red Hat, to the point where they are forcing (over the objection of the people who work on Fedora) the addition of some sort of privacy preserving telemetry to the product. When you get to the point of "all the Red Hat people that say Red Hat is independent are lying! They don't know what really goes on, but I (completely unaffiliated and viewing from a distance) know the truth!" I don't think there's anything more you can do.
Sorry this probably did seem like it was implicitly referring to you, but it wasn't my intention at all. I find you very reasonable :-)
It's kind of the culmination of dozens of threads on Hacker News over the last few years and increasing frustration on my end. Mainly the frustration is because I have criticisms of Red Hat, but every conversation seems to jump straight to some variation of IBM and it drowns out the (IMHO) reasonable discussion, or it's (rarely but still happens) a Red Hat person who doesn't think a single decision they've made is bad.
