Red Hat … states that quitting China won’t mean a net reduction in head count.

China is home to many very talented programmers. That upside is balanced by China’s unique regulatory and legal system that means most large organizations in China employ representatives of the Communist Party, and many of those members organize party cells in the workplace. Perhaps Red Hat just wants to operate in a less complicated jurisdiction that, unlike China, is not accused of fostering industrial espionage.

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