Red Hat Will Die Inside a Dying IBM
It won't be spared like SUSE in Novell
In the past week we wrote many articles about the latest "Kyndryl" of IBM. It's called "Anderon" and there are already many red flags. It's basically a US government bailouts or American taxpayers paying IBM to carry on abandoning the US and milking what little is left of IBM products. It's horrendous.
"Apropos the return of Bob Cringely," an associate has suggested, "perhaps it is time to revisit some of his older writings about IBM, e.g. "IBM is No Longer a Viable Business" (years ago).
Over a decade ago Cringely wrote many articles about the endless layoffs that would diminish IBM. He had inside sources to rely on and he was right. Since then IBM has engaged in what looks like accounting fraud to fake "growth" (where none existed), speed up offshoring, and handsomely reward the very same people who destroyed IBM after 100+ years of the company's existence.
Our concern as GNU/Linux advocates is the fate of Red Hat, which has many layoffs this week even if the media intentionally ignores them (some of this media's editorial staff admitted to me that IBM had paid it). Red Hat cannot survive or outline IBM because of the "bluewashing" and some Red Hat people "pulling a Jolla" (with Sailfish OS) on IBM (like on Nokia) won't work, and not just because IBM is overzealous with patents and trademarks.
We are still seeking input on the mass layoffs we seem to be seeing at Red Hat this month. There is definitely something going on there, but we still rely on whistleblowers to leak information to us.
IBM isn't where Red Hat came to thrive but where it came to die.
Suffice to say, as many Red Hat staff is not official "IBM" it won't be obvious what truly happens. █
