An article has just been withdrawn whose headline was: "Rumor: Novell To Lay Off 1100?". It was a valid page at some stage, but it has expired since it reached my feed reader (I was asleep at the time).
we very seldom see anyone deviating a lot from the "template-like" narrative, let alone mentioning "layoffs" or "RA" or some other term that implies non-consensual departure
"before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources"