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●● The Rumours About Another Round of Layoffs at Red Hat

Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Red Hat, Rumour at 1:07 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gossip only (unverified):

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Summary: Many layoffs are preceded by informed (or sometimes false) office gossip. Is something going on?

Lunduke said that “as the controversy over the recent changes to the Red Hat Linux source code policy raged on… I received a message from a Red Hat employee suggesting that an additional round of layoffs may be in the works.”

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“Multiple sources — and signs — say the first round was only the beginning,” a follow-up said in “More Red Hat layoffs on the way in 2023?“.

=> ↺ More Red Hat layoffs on the way in 2023?

IBM’s results have not been good.

=> have not been good

It has meanwhile been 1.5 months since this blog post (it only came after Techrights had criticised IBM for cutting opensource.com, citing insiders under condition of anonymity) and nothing came from IBM since then:

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Image: opensource.com July: 1.5 months ago; lowercase 'internet' implies balkanisation

We’re still waiting… does IBM care for Open Source? The RHEL policy changes (regarding availability of source code) suggest the opposite.

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