Red Hat laid off 400–500 engineers in April 2026 — and major tech media stayed silent for 3 days. IBM's pressure on one of open source's biggest corporate contributors is a wake-up call: no ecosystem should depend on a single corporation.
Analysis of what this means for RHEL users and open source alternatives: https://newsgroup.site/red-hat-layoffs-500-ibm-open-source-2026/