Use a more personal voice

Author: yrodiere

posts/Yoann/2025-03-24-red-hat-ibm.adoc

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Yoann Rodière
 :awestruct-layout: blog-post
 
 A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced its Middleware division would move to IBM.
-As a change of this nature is likely to raise a few questions, we felt it would be best to provide some information.
+As a change of this nature is likely to raise a few questions, I felt it would be best to provide some information -- even though the team as a whole is not yet ready to provide an official statement.
 
 == What's happening?
 
@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ and in particular all project leaders.
 
 == What's the impact on Hibernate users and contributors?
 
-The displayed intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development, which implies no negative impact on the open-source software community.
-Early internal communication received by Hibernate team members was consistent with this,
+The displayed intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development,
+which implies no negative impact on the open-source software community.
+Early internal communication I received was consistent with this,
 highlighting open-source development as a strategic investment.
 
-As a reminder, the Hibernate team has been working a lot on making our projects _more_ open in the past few months:
+As a reminder, I (in part, but mostly the rest of the Hibernate team) have been working a lot on making our projects _more_ open in the past few months:
 the re-licensing of https://in.relation.to/2025/03/14/orm-asl/[Hibernate ORM]
 and https://in.relation.to/2024/06/10/hibernate-search-7-2-0-Alpha2/#switch-project-license-to-apache-license-2-0[Hibernate Search]
 from LGPL to ASL2 is now complete,
@@ -35,7 +36,10 @@ Also, yes, if you can believe it, these initiatives are a happy coincidence:
 the Hibernate team started them more than a year ago,
 while we were made aware of the move to IBM almost at the same time as everybody else, a few weeks ago.
 
-== What do Hibernate team members think about it?
+== Some quotes from Hibernate team members
+
+I took the liberty to collect quotes from fellow Hibernate team members.
+Note this reflects each person's opinion, and is not meant as an official statement from the whole team.
 
 [quote,Steve Ebersole, Hibernate ORM project lead]
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