Now we (may) know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/
While everyone was distracted by IBM's $34bn takeover bid, Red Hat quietly wrote a death-note for KDE – within Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to be precise.
On October 30, the Linux distro biz emitted Fedora 29 and RHEL 7.6, and in the latter's changelog the following appears, which a Reg reader kindly just alerted us to: