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There is usually more than one factor contributing to any event. In reality, the CEO probably got a lot of feedback from a lot of directions, the press screwed stuff up, and Red Hat's competitors used the opportunity for FUD. Now the CEO backpedals. It's what they're paid to do (Sort of... In reality, they're really paid for speaking publicly in a way that doesn't blow stuff up in the first place. Actually, if you want to get to the bottom of this "issue", I'd check Red Hat's board for their decision on hiring the CEO in the first place, but we usually don't take root cause analysis quite this far).