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.
This last week, a group of anti-Jewish Microsoft employees got rowdy. Microsoft fired some of them and sent The Lunduke Journal a statement. Then held a media briefing. Let's watch it together.
Video of "Worker Intifada" Occupying Microsoft President's Office
Last week the Microsoft "Worker Intifada" ransacked a farmers market and chanted "Go away, Jews!" Today they got arrested in Microsoft's President's office. We have the video.
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.
Reinstalling OSX on my old PPC Mac Mini. It verifies the install CD whether you like it or not. I can't stand that kind of thing. “Oh now, it's for your own good, you know”. My own good is “not having to sit around for half an hour waiting for verification of a disc that I already know is good and don't actually care if it isn't anyway because it's a 20-year-old OS on a 20-year-old machine and I'm only doing this because I messed up a Linux install and actually want to check that the hard disk will still boot an OS”.
Want to publish Android software? You'll need to let Google verify your identity. Plus: Google commits to supporting Sideloading and Third Party App Stores.
“Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices,” says Google. “Think of it like an ID check at the airport, which confirms a traveler's identity but is separate from the security screening of their bags; we will be confirming who the developer is, not reviewing the content of their app or where it came from.”
These requirements will go into full effect in September of 2026 (one year from now), but only for developers in four countries: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Countries which, according to Google, suffer from “fraudulent app scams, often from repeat perpetrators”.
The idea seems simple enough: If a developer is known to make Android malware, Google will have the ability to block their software from being installed. Thus preventing the spread of Malware.
We will see how well this system works, in practice, next year.
It also remains to be seen when this “Google App Developer Identity Verification” requirement will be enforced in other countries (such as the USA). For the moment, Google is simply saying “2027 and beyond”… so there’s still time left for this policy to be modified.
As part of the process, Google is launching a new “Android Developer Console”, specifically for developers to verify their identity and register their applications.
The Practical Impact
What does this new “ID verification” for Android Devs mean… in the real world?
Once this change is worldwide:
A developer must be “verified” before their software can be installed via any mechanism — including Sideloaded Apps, and alternative App Stores (such as F-Droid).
Developing and publishing Android software, in an anonymous fashion, will no longer be supported.
Google is also, it appears, committing to continuing to allow “sideloading” and third party App Stores for the foreseeable future.
In other words: If a user wants to sideload software, or use F-Droid, Google will allow that. But Google is going to know the real-world identity of the developer / publisher of any software that gets installed.
The War on Sideloading, Revised
Google and Apple have been at war with the concept of “sideloading” (aka “Installing software the normal way”) for several years now. With both companies adding new features to their systems which allow them to block the ability of users to install “non-approved” software.
In that context, this particular announcement from Google is a bit of a double edged sword.
“To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer. We believe this is how an open system should work—by preserving choice while enhancing security for everyone.”
On the one hand, requiring ID verification for developers is clearly a big step towards increased control over what software is installable on the systems we own.
On the other hand, Google is making it clear they intend to support sideloading & third party App Stores into the future.
Something they have been hesitant about in the past.
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Whoopsie Daisy
Well. Shoot. I’m man enough to admit when I’ve made a mistake. And, boy howdy, was that a mistake!
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Omarchy was started by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Ruby on Rails, as a command-line and developer focused (and unabashedly nerdy) configuration of Arch Linux.
In the short time since it began (back in June), Omarchy has captured a massive amount of interest and has grown to become a full-fledged distribution in its own right.
Omarchy 2.0 boasts a new ISO installation method, AUR-free installation, a Chrome micro-fork with live theme switching, a Starship prompt, a new icon, and 400 other changes (from 45 contributors).
According to DHH, the Omarchy Discord now has over 6,000 members with the website having received over 100,000 unique visitors in the last month.
Not too shabby for a Linux distribution that is only 2 months old.
Speaking of Discord, if the Omarchy installation fails, it displays a QR code with an invite link to the Omarchy support channel. I thought that was a rather nice touch.
Omarchy is yet another Open Source project which has steered clear of Woke & DEI politics… and has seen tremendous success and adoption. We have seen that same scenario play out repeatedly now, with projects like OpenMandriva, XLibre, Hyprland, & Brave.
Avoid DEI. Experience a flood of users, contributors, and excitement.
A pattern is emerging. Hopefully more projects learn this important lesson.
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