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Bluewashing: IBM Replaces Red Hat With IBM (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 25, 2025

Related: IBM Makes Staff Cuts, Lots of Activity in Threads About Red Hat Layoffs (or 'Bluewashing') | Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year | [Meme] Bluewashing

Published yesterday:

Today, we are sharing news that Carolyn Nash, Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO), will retire after a 35-year career spanning numerous leadership positions and more than eight years with Red Hat. Bobby Leibrock will step into a combined role of senior vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Carolyn will remain with Red Hat in an advisory capacity through June 2025 to assist with the transition. As part of this move, Marco Bill has been named senior vice president and chief information officer, reporting to Bobby.

Bobby spent nearly 20 years in IBM 'proper':

Bobby Leibrock

IBM Red Hat is not Red Hat (see the articles cited above). The company after the takeover had strategic decisions being made by IBM.

IBM is promoting proprietary software of Microsoft this week (yesterday [1]) and the Free Software Foundation's staff finally found the guts to criticise IBM for what it had done to RHEL.

The above change of staff means that people who are fairly new to Red Hat (they only know IBM Red Hat, not the "real" or "original" Red Hat) will run the company, having spent nearly 20 years at IBM. It should be noted that Marco Bill has been at Red Hat since 2006 [2], but he won't be the one in charge, only "reporting to Bobby." Based on his education, Bobby is just some suit; he thinks of money, not tech.

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  2. As per a Microsoft post (below), published in proprietary social control media of Microsoft

15 years at Red Hat: My journey through open source, culture, and leadership

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