An uproar over the Fedora Git forge decision

A large corporation is difficult to steer from the top (because of the sheer number of decisions to be made overall) and impossible to steer from the bottom (because the most you can do is convince one manager at a time to support your way of thinking). The people who are really steering are hundreds or thousands of middle managers, each of whom has a slightly different understanding of the business's high-level needs and goals, a moderately different set of internal resources and levers of power, and a radically different understanding of the business's immediate problems. Every now and then, their collective decision-making is bad enough that an executive gets involved and tells them "you screwed up, now fix it." Every now and then, their collective decision-making is good enough that the corporation does something that looks very smart, to an outside observer. But most of the time, the corporation drunkenly shambles in the general direction of profitability, while the outside world tries to figure out what on Earth it could possibly be thinking. This is the wrong question. Corporations don't think. The people running the corporation think, but there are many of them and each one has a peculiar and limited understanding of the corporation's broader scope.

(Some large corporations are better at dealing with this problem than others, in some cases a lot better. But they all suffer from it to some extent.)

TL;DR: Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by collective decision-making, because the latter is amazingly inefficient.