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Media in the Pockets of Companies It is Writing About and Sensationalism Instead of the Actual News About Linux

Or: IBM and the Media



Summary: I've made this quick video just to complain about some stuff in today's news (or so-called 'news'), in effect unnecessarily sensationalised drama, shameless marketing, and paid-for puff pieces made to look like reporting

THE media strategy of IBM isn't ethical. They try to police which words people can and cannot use because their founder had a keen sense of Public Relations. Only last year and about a decade ago IBM was attempting to manipulate my writings, so I confronted them over the telephone and over E-mail. IBM is, in that regard, reminiscent of Microsoft.



"This has barely changed; the Public Relations has changed, just like the Public Relations strategy of Microsoft (lies such as "Microsoft loves Linux" and IBM's "embRACE")."The video above and our extensive set of articles about IBM (we wrote about IBM about 100 times last year) isn't rude. What's rude is what IBM kept doing for as long as a century in order to make money. This has barely changed; the Public Relations has changed, just like the Public Relations strategy of Microsoft (lies such as "Microsoft loves Linux" and IBM's "embRACE").

IBM is not BLM

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