Michael Catanzaro's Latest Blog Post Affirms Rumours of Red Hat Changes and RAs/PIPs at IBM
Last month: IBM is Not Done Destroying Red Hat, Wait Till October 1st 2026 (More Layoffs and Bluewashing)
Yesterday (Thursday, 27th of August 2026 at around 3PM local time):
Michael Catanzaro: Change in Timeline to “Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking”
In Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking, I reported: [...] This is because I was planning to leave my job at Red Bait on December 31 due to some internal Red Bait policy changes. But this timeline has now unexpectedly moved forward two months, to October 30. Accordingly, I will now discontinue tracking newly-reported security issues on October 1, 2026. During October, I will focus only on tracking issues reported prior to October 1. By November 1, all disclosure deadlines for that set of issues will have been reached, and I will be done.
Prior article on Catanzaro's 'discharge' (reading between the lines, IBM is "spitting out" Red Hat staff): Red Hat (IBM) Has Long 'Reassigned' (Bluewashed) Red Hat Staff to Ruin Fedora, Now It Does the Same to GNOME
Earlier today we wrote about cuts at IBM next week (month) [1, 2] and it looks like Catanzaro took the 'voluntary' route.
IBM is a tasteless company. It is bad steward for Red Hat and by extension trouble/risk to Red Hat's projects, including Fedora, Flatpak, GNOME etc. IBM is not a stable company and it's run by charlatans who lie to the shareholders and loot the coffers via "stock options" and bonuses. █
