IBM is Eliminating Red Hat Like It Eliminated Tivoli and Eliminated Cognos
Cognos used to be an actual company (almost all of its staff was laid off earlier this month):
Now on to Red Hat (acquired about a decade after Cognos).
Stage I:
Stage II: (23 hours ago by Brian Gordon)
There were Red Hat layoffs last week [1, 2], but the media called them "IBM layoffs" because of the bluewashing. These layoffs will carry on this coming week if the rumours are credible. Eventually there will be no more Red Hat. The term "Red Hat" will just be the name of a product, such as RHEL, which IBM turns into a proprietary-ish UNIX.
"Red Hat" (IBM) staff is meanwhile crushing and taking over GNOME. By extension, it is raiding communities and trying to eliminate projects/options (e.g. X11 in GNOME-based distros). There might be something deeper and more sinister there, based on writings from Daniel Pocock.
Red Hat has far too much power over GNU/Linux development, with its staff involved not only in kernel development but also GNU, GTK, and so on.
Be wary of IBM. It's like a silent giant that doesn't care about Software Freedom [1, 2] and probably never cared (unlike Red Hat as a standalone firm). All it sees in "Linux" is a giant pile of money or potential revenue; if only it could monopolise the whole thing... █