After getting blindsided by a very weird meeting in which a rather large cloud computing provider wanted nothing said to be on the record, Faultline was very relieved to find Red Hat’s Ian Hood, Chief Technologist for Global Service Providers, to be most ebullient, willing to dive into whether Red Hat Enterprise Linux might ever be deployed on CPE. Now owned by IBM, Hood sympathized with our recent frustration with operator outlooks on new technologies – that no one gets fired for investing in their access networks, but that this comes at the detriment of new technology adoption. This was observed by Rethink TV, our sister service, in its recent Multicast-ABR forecast. For Red Hat, this ingrained behavior is seen…