Now, a lawsuit has been filed against Red Hat, on behalf of Allan Wood, who was a Senior Director at the Linux giant.
That lawsuit alleges significant racial, relgious, and gender discrimination. And, based on what information we currently know about Red Hat's discriminatory policies... his case looks incredibly strong.
We just filed a federal lawsuit against IBM’s subsidiary Red Hat for illegal racial discrimination. IBM has allegedly implemented illegal anti-white and anti-male quotas. We will use every tool to hold IBM accountable:
With our co-counsel, including Barnes Law, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of our client against the International Business Machines Corporation’s (IBM) subsidiary, Red Hat, for violating Civil Rights laws by allegedly engaging in discriminatory employment and termination practices against white males.
Our plaintiff is a white male and was a dutiful Red Hat employee for eight years, rising to the position of Senior Director. He was an exemplary employee who had never received a negative review during his time at Red Hat.
But for the discrimination he faced, he was on the path to becoming one of the top executives at Red Hat…
In 2021, Red Hat began implementing illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements. In accordance with its illegal activities, Red Hat hired a Chief Executive Officer of DEI to spearhead these programs — mandating employee training while implementing employment quotas aimed at achieving diversity goals by illegally treating race as a dispositive factor for employment and advancement.
On several occasions, managers and executives at Red Hat commented to our plaintiff and other employees expressing their dismay at the lack of diversity in the workforce and their desire to achieve certain workforce quotas based on race and gender. Red Hat executives indicated that these DEI initiatives would influence certain hiring and employment decisions.
Our plaintiff was vocal about his opposition to these discriminatory policies and continuously advocated for hiring based on merit and skill rather than other immutable characteristics.
Red Hat made express statements, both vocally and in writing at company events, that were derogatory towards white individuals and presented an anti-white agenda. Red Hat also remarked on the low number of women employed and expressed anti-male rhetoric. Red Hat made it clear that it was going to implement heightened DEI policies, with the sole intent of increasing diversity.
Red Hat has made it clear that it is in favor of discriminatory policies that the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
In the case of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard, decided together with SFFA v. University of North Carolina, Red Hat, along with 70 other corporations, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of affirmative action:
At a kickoff event in Texas, Red Hat brazenly announced its “Bold DEI Goals,” which included quotas.
Red Hat sought to remake its workforce demographic, seeking to reach 30% women globally and 30% associates of color in the United States by 2028.
Just two weeks after this announcement, our plaintiff was informed by his manager that his role was being eliminated following several months of discriminatory treatment.
Upon information and belief, 21 of the total 22 individuals were white males.
Last year, James O'Keefereleased a recording of IBM Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman Arvind Krishna promising to fire, demote, or deny bonuses to corporate executives who fail to meet the corporation’s racial, national origin, and sex-based hiring quotas or hire too many Asian individuals.
Following this shocking footage, we filed a federal civil rights complaint with the EEOC against IBM for alleged racial and sex discrimination.
We also wrote to IBM’s Board of Directors, demanding an end to the corporation’s systemic violations of law to prevent the waste of corporate assets and harm to shareholders.
Today, we are proud to file this lawsuit to continue to fight corporate America’s destructive, illegal, and odious use of illegal DEI initiatives that are fundamentally anti-white, anti-male, and anti-equality.
Godot Game Engine Went Woke... And Lost $160,000 Per Year.
A few months ago, the Open Source Godot Game Engine enacted a mass "cleansing" of Non-Woke supporters. Then their monthly donations dropped by over 25%.
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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Holy guacamole, Batman! We are now over 80% of the way to our funding goal… for the end of February. And it’s not even half way through January! I am absolutely gobsmacked.
Want to help push us over the 100% line — and directly fund the truly independent Tech Journalism of The Lunduke Journal?
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New Lifetime Subscriptions are available, for $200, from now through January 14th. Then this option goes "back into the vault".
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Email “bryan at lunduke.com” with the email address you use on both Substack and Locals (can be different email addresses).
Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status on Locals.
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The Lunduke Journal remains 100% free from advertising… and, even more importantly, 100% free from all Big Tech influence.
And, because we never take a penny from any company, this is only possible thanks to you.
All of you amazing nerds showed tremendous support for The Lunduke Journal last month — grabbing Lifetime and standard subscriptions — meeting our necessary funding requirements for January… before January even started.
Mind. Blown.
This allows me to focus on new reporting — without needing to worry so much about funding and “business stuff” during the month. Which means more shows & more investigations. A massive win for all of us.
That also means that, this month, we don’t need to do a big “fundraiser”. Instead, we’re going to just send out this quick reminder of how absolutely critical your support is for the continued success The Lunduke Journal — the last bastion of truly independent Tech Journalism.
Seriously. Couldn’t do this without you.
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Lunduke Journal Discounts
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The "World Famous Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription" is exactly what it sounds like. Pay once and get full access to The Lunduke Journal (with all the perks of subscription on Locals). For life.
New Lifetime Subscriptions are available, for $200, from now through January 15th. Then this option goes "back into the vault".
Here's how to grab one of these coveted bad boys for yourself:
Email “bryan at lunduke.com” with the email address you use on both Substack and Locals (can be different email addresses).
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The Famous Lifetime Subscription (with Bitcoin discount)
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The House of Lunduke BBS is a 20 node, Telnet BBS (bbs.lunduke.com) focused on the golden age of DOS BBS gaming -- including TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon.
The BBS is free to use, & creating an account takes only a moment. All new users are granted 2 hours of access to all games on the system (more than enough to get in your daily turns of every one of these classic games).
Current games on the BBS:
TradeWars 2002 (aka TW2002)
Legend of the Red Dragon (aka LORD)
Legend of the Red Dragon 2
The Pit
Exitilus
DoorMUD
Barren Realms Elite
How to Connect
Accessing The House of Lunduke BBS is incredibly easy. Simply point any Telnet client at "bbs.lunduke.com" on port 23 (the default Telnet port).
This means, on many systems, a simple:
telnet bbs.lunduke.com
Will, technically, work.
However, if you want to have the absolute best experience -- and see what BBSing was truly like back in the 1980s and 1990s -- you'll want to use a Telnet client capable of displaying ANSI color... specifically one tuned for BBSes.
The following Telnet clients are all recommended and work well with The House of Lunduke:
Once you have chosen your Telnet client, simply add "bbs.lunduke.com" to your address book and connect. Or, from within some Telnet clients, you can also type "atdtbbs.lunduke.com" (no spaces).
Fun fact: "ATDT" is a command which tells an old-school modem to "tone dial this number". The "AT" stands for "Attention", "D" stands for "Dial", and ending T stands for "Tone". In the old days ATDT would be followed by a phone number... but, since we're connecting via Telnet, we now use a domain.
Q: What software does The House of Lunduke BBS run?
A: The core BBS software is known as Virtual Advanced (a successor to VBBS), a DOS-based BBS package that acheived some popularity during the early 1990s. All of the games on the system (known as "Door games" in BBS terminology) also run on DOS -- and each is the most popular version (or the last version) of each. A Telnet server handles incoming telnet connections -- which then interfaces with the DOS-based BBS software, using what is known as a FOSSIL driver.
Fun Fact: A FOSSIL driver is a serial interface driver -- which makes it easier to use a standard interface to multiple different communication devices (such as a type of dial-up modem or a Telnet connection). FOSSIL stands for "Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer". Which is a fun name.
Q: What does "20 node" mean?
A: In "ye olden times", BBSes used modems and phone lines. One person, at a time, could call a BBS on each phone line. Each of these is a "node". We are now living in the future -- and using Telnet instead of phone lines -- which means that, in theory, we could have a small mountain of people connecting at the same time. However. Since we are using 1980s and 1990s DOS software, jury-rigged to work with the modern Internet, some of those old limitations still apply. 20 nodes were chosen as that makes for an incredibly large BBS system... but not too difficult to manage.
Q: Why not use a more modern BBS server?
A: There are several "modern" BBS servers -- with many fancy benefits. MysticBBS, Synchronet, and others. The House of Lunduke BBS is not about being modern. Or fancy. It is about preserving a snapshot of a high-point in BBS gaming history.
There are some options. For both subscribing and donating. They're all on this page.
Bonus: At the bottom of this page you will find the invite link to the super-secret Lunduke Journal Discord Chat Server. This is only available for full subscribers, which makes it a nice place to hang out. No riff-raff.
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