IBM Red Hat Has a Long History or Track Record of Misusing Trademarks to Send Lawyers to Try to Take Down Pages and Web Sites of Critics
Red Hat claims to own words; IBM thinks it owns names
Now that thelayoff.com is removing many pages about IBM/Red Hat [1, 2] while leaving intact pages made by Internet trolls to vex (rage-bait and inauthentic postings) it's time to revisit how Mia Bass (Legal Affairs at Red Hat, Inc.) was bullying Wikileaks almost exactly 18 years ago (May 30th, 2008) and IBM then tried to take down an entire domain of a longtime Fedora volunteer (unpaid labour) for talking about legitimate issues. The tribunal ruled that IBM had abused the process on many levels.
Pages at thelayoff.com that are critical of IBM/Red Hat keep vanishing (quietly) for no good reason, so it's a good time to revisit what IBM did before.
Red Hat pretends to honour Software Freedom, but it does not even respect free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, the right to dissent (either as outsider or insider) and so on. In 2012 Red Hat staff was doing horrible things to me because I had criticised what Red Hat did for Microsoft (they undermined security and promoted back doors in billions of computers). They tried to make it personal (Red Hat is not a person) and drag me down to their "cancel culture" level. █