Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies
IBM does what many have long expected. It implements some of the Red Hat layoffs by RTO ("The RTO (Return-to-office) Layoffs or 'Soft' Layoffs at IBM and Red Hat") and by "completing the merger", leaving overlapping units such as sales and HR with too little justifying their retention:
Red Hat is getting smaller, even if it still hires some people. Red Hat is IBM and IBM is shrinking. Like Microsoft with GitHub, bringing it "in-house" helps hide the extent of the layoffs. It helps hide the fact that things don't go too well.
A couple of years ago IBM openly said that there were mass layoffs at Red Hat. It no longer needs to say this; it just calls them "IBM" and does some "name-dropping" like "investment" and "hey hi" or "efficiency". Krishna will figure out the buzzword du jour and then name-drop it in Cramer's show. Then, as we expected, he'll bend over to Mohammed bin Salman and Cheeto MAGAt. That's definitely not a Code of Conduct violation; executives are exempted from ethics.
We've also just mentioned that IBM in effect killed OpenSource.com and its successor is de facto dead.
The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster and now works in a Microsoft proxy. He betrayed his workers. █