Is it my imagination or does this seem strange for a company that seems to understand
the Open Source idea?
No, it's not at all strange. They're supporting the distro they actually know. How much money do you expect a for profit company to devote to supporting a product they neither sell nor have anything to do with the development of? And it's not just one product, there's easily a half-dozen distros that can be thought of as "major brands," and if IBM supports one they have no excuse for not supporting them all. Sure, they might make a small minority of their customers happy this way, but it can hardly be worth it for them.
Get Real (Score:2)
No, it's not at all strange. They're supporting the distro they actually know. How much money do you expect a for profit company to devote to supporting a product they neither sell nor have anything to do with the development of? And it's not just one product, there's easily a half-dozen distros that can be thought of as "major brands," and if IBM supports one they have no excuse for not supporting them all. Sure, they might make a small minority of their customers happy this way, but it can hardly be worth it for them.