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IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 10, 2026

Thankfully some people speak out and reach out to us

So there are still no publications at all even mentioning the Red Hat layoffs. None!

A day or two before mass layoffs:

It's great to see that in the world of layoffs and crazy AI

Recent hours:

it was not so long, 4th April last year being the Last day in IBM

Someone who used to work there is trying to put me in prison after harassing and defaming me since 2012 because I criticised his employer over 'secure boot' (Microsoft back door). What a crazy world we live in! (Other people pay him to do this)

Sometimes it feels like Techrights sort of bears the brunt of fourth estate collapsing, as that means to suppress some topics the oppressor need not attack many separate "branches" but just one (and not well-funded at that). We'll soon return to covering EPO corruption. Meanwhile, regarding IBM, this is why we have many whistleblowers out there:

It's headed under $200, probably down to the $160s which is where it was when Arvind adopted his 'eat the seed corn, burn the furniture, achieve $300 even if it destroys the company' strategy. If he was smart he would have retired at the end of last year, but it's too late now.

"The stock is way overvalued," someone argues. "IBM has sold all of the seed corn, but still promises to sell corn which it no longer has. After a while, customers will notice that the corn tastes funny almost if it was made from corn syrup that lacks any nutritional value. It is just cheap candy corn that will give you diabetes. After Arvind and his executive minions cash out, IBM will be nothing more than a brand for a garden-variety WITCH company. Quantum will probably never materialize into an actual profitable business and let's face it IBM when the company almost went out of business in 1993, remember the core business was mainframes, which wasn't enough to prevent a meltdown. It wasn't then and it sure isn't now that there are many more ways to replace mainframes running legacy code that will run "good enough" and "fast enough" but still make the business decision of dumping them worth while. IBM su-ks at AI and is not a big player in it, but AI will definitely destroy this last truly profitable niche. What comes around goes around."

Quantum?

We almost always skip articles that talk about it; like the articles that say "hey hi", they tend to perpetuate marketing and vapourware while lacking real substance. Investors in Wall Street don't need substance; they would not "get it" anyhow. █

IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)

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