It's entirely possible. They could have gotten Jeff or anyone else who didn't agree with Red Hat on the show, there is not a shortage of people in the community that disagree as you say. They could have done another show to cover what 'the entire linux community' thinks about this.

For whatever reason they choose to invite on a Red Hat employee, not ask any difficult questions and generally just agree with everything he says. I don't know the Red Hat dev or the people doing the podcast but if the 'entire linux community' are not happy it's not great journalism.

"Now we've heard Red Hat's version of events, for some balance we will interview the devs of Rocky & Alma and next week we have editor of The Register on"

I've not looked at the podcast, maybe they have done this sort of thing....but if their only contribution is to get on a Red Hat employee and agree with him, I'm confortable dismissing them.

If I was IBM and my employee was going on a podcast for damage limitation, I'd want assurances those hosting would be doing exactly what they did, agreeing with company policy.

I rely on Linux, not Red Hat. In my time on linux, a decade or so, Linus has been consistently awesome and Red Hat have consistently been dicks.

If Linus starts ranting about freeloaders I will listen, but freeloader chat from IBM is less compelling.