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IBM Likes to Speak About Diversity in Order to Distract or Confuse People About IBM's Past and Present

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Summary: Diversity is a very good and desirable thing -- hardly something that anyone would reject -- but when monopolisers mention "diversity" they have something else in mind (like distracting the public, fracturing/destabilising harmonious communities, and ousting good people who typically obstruct monopolies rather than minorities)

IN 2020, as we noted less than a day ago, IBM is still a patent bully (this has not changed since buying Red Hat), but IBM wishes to be seen as an ethical company with new puff pieces [1] and longstanding PR campaigns [2]. This video goes through some articles we wrote in 2020 [3-5] (there were dozens more) to explain why Linus Torvalds was temporarily expelled [3], based on mischaracterisations which mostly distract from IBM's sexism (a real problem, albeit outside the scope of the video) and overt racism [4,5].



"...IBM wishes to be seen as an ethical company..."IBM is not a friend of Free software and it's not a friend of diversity, either. But like the fossil fuel companies, IBM is trying to seed doubt and confusion by saturating the media with conflicting messages, turning facts into a "debate" (over whether IBM is racist or not; akin to global warming "controversies"). "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge," Bertrand Russell once said, but in this time it's just mindless propaganda by IBM, wrapped up as "news". With something like OIN, for instance, IBM also tricked (or fooled) many people into thinking that IBM is saving or protecting Free software projects from patents. Marshall Phelps, who helped turn IBM into a patent bully, once said: “Other than Bill Gates, I don’t know of any high tech CEO that sits down to review the company’s IP portfolio" (because Microsoft is the next IBM, struggling to find its place in the world and resorting to patent monopolies instead, whether on software or vaccines). “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today," Bill Gates said after he had checked IBM's patent portfolio. Decades later he's doing exactly what IBM did (which he also complained about), in essence shifting the profit-making model to patents while pretending to be looking after "health" or "diversity" or whatnot (and while also associating with pedophiles and the world's very worst autocrats, just like Mr. Watson in his days).

Things cannot be rosy and the future is not bright when people who are a blight on civilisation pretend to be our salvation.

  1. 2021 will be the year open source projects overcome their diversity problems
  2. Diversity Comes in Many Forms
  3. They Tell Us Linus Torvalds is Sexist But Evidence Suggests Otherwise
  4. IBM's Founder, Mr. Watson (Yes, That Watson), Had “Very Keen Sense of Public Relations”
  5. The Full Story (With References) of IBM's Role in a Purge of Black People and Mixed-Race Couples

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