IBM and the labors of TurboHercules

The inference of Microsoft's involvement was made by a european party who had previously worked opposite Florian Mueller, an anti-open_source EU lobbyist. The imputation of MS' hand gets more credence since TurboHercules runs on MS Server 2008 and nothing else.

If TurboHercules ran on an RHEL or Centos distro, how would this be different? Would IBM, et.al., point fingers at Red Hat?