Rumours of IBM Layoffs Apparently Confirmed Yesterday, IBM Canada Consulting Impacted (as Rumoured)
3 weeks ago: Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs
YESTERDAY we wrote about IBM layoffs targeting the Consulting staff, having spoken of woes in Consulting back in September and also mentioned layoff rumours less than 2 weeks ago. Now there's this this new update which claims a confirmation from management: (on the date specified in advance)
It's Thursday February 6. Manager confirmed today that "big cuts" are coming to IBM Canada Consulting, but did not have specific numbers. Does anybody have information you can share?
Only hours ago someone else asked: "how is POWER doing? Are they having layoffs too?"
POWER is said to be one of the main targets for future cuts.
Recently an IBM (Red Hat actually) employee said that Fedora was hiring a couple of people. That was about Fedora pushing "AI" from IBM and some bloggers made fun of it (we linked to their rants after we had found these). But don't be distracted by this 'recruitment drive' (a pair of people); when IBM has mass layoffs we must also read it as Red Hat layoffs (they're the same). As someone put it in LXer yesterday:
Red Hat, under the thumb of IBM, used to say they were operating independently. Uh, no, Red Hat is a "political" arm of IBM now. You can pretty much ignore anything the Red Hat leaders are saying in the article. It's PR-speak for the ignorant.Can we create some kind of community Free Open Source Honor entity that goes into high handed organizations like Red Hat and cleans out the poop?
I smell something. It's a color and sits on ones head.™
When talking about IBM layoffs it's implied Red Hat is also affected. Some IBM insiders have long said there's no difference anymore and it would be wrong to look for "Red Hat layoffs". Therefore, any time we learn of layoffs at IBM we must assume some of those workers are formerly or currently associated with Red Hat. The separation barely exists, sans the branding, after "Bluewashing".
Speaking of Fedora pushing "AI", pay attention to this article about Red Hat "confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidential VMs..."
They're working towards lockdown of entire systems (disenfranchising the users), as before [1, 2]. This isn't about freedom or any true promotion of real security. █