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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Black, Hispanic Americans More Likely Than Whites To Think DEI Increases Discrimination Against Them" | Aug 02 01:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/black-hispanic-americans-more-likely-than-whites-to-think-dei-increases-discrimination-against-them-poll-finds/ | Aug 02 01:35 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | It's not just white males there are several of us women that have also been passed up for diversity reasons. | Aug 02 01:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Get used to it. In the coming Christian Nationalist Theocracy, women will once again be relegated to the home while God’s master plan will put hardworking men back in control of, well, pretty much everything. | Aug 02 01:35 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freebeacon.com | Black, Hispanic Americans More Likely Than Whites To Think DEI Increases Discrimination Against Them, Poll Finds | Aug 02 01:35 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1753984359498#c7278858363457717290">@ Anonymous of Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 08:40:00 ...</a></h5><blockquote>@ Anonymous of Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 08:40:00 GMT+1<br /><br />Whether A- or A+ has not been spotted by the examiner is an error and the examiner has not done his job properly, as he has manifestly not consulted the d | Aug 02 02:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | escription, to stay with the wording of G 1/24. I would thus not limit the examiner’s mistake only to A+.<br /><br />I hope that, thanks to G 1/24, the tendency of not reading</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 02:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 02:11 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1753953282635#c447905300970280569">Let us give some thought to legal certainty, in th...</a></h5><blockquote>Let us give some thought to legal certainty, in the area of writing a "freedom to operate" opinion for Europe, and how it might change if the EPO forswears its present insistence on strict conformity.<br /><br /> | Aug 02 06:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Does the opinion-writer have an easier job, here in Europe, because the EPO insists, as a condition of allowance of every patent monopoly application, that the description be strictly &</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:00 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1753963403497#c3477590046453559012">Max, I take the position that it is the EPO's ...</a></h5><blockquote>Max, I take the position that it is the EPO's job to grant (or refuse) patents in accordance with the provisions of the EPC. Those provisions have been calibrated to balance the interests of third parties with those of patent | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ees.<br /><br />As expressly stated in some BoA decisions, the purpose of the EPO's current description adaptation practice is to ensure that the claims are</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1753970714376#c8955608642223811279">I fully agree with you and I could not have worded...</a></h5><blockquote>I fully agree with you and I could not have worded it better than you. <br /><br />However, it occured to me that the EPO does, after all, have one reasonable interest in requiring amendment of the description. This is: t | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | o signal to other actors in the patent monopoly system what, exactly, is the EXAMINED scope of the claims (with or without examination errors, but that is an entirely different issue),</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1753975341981#c8634051177967276685">@ Anonymous of Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 10:32:00 ...</a></h5><blockquote>@ Anonymous of Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 10:32:00 GMT+1<br /><br />If there is a remote possibility that A+C is meant to fall under a claim to A+B, then it why has this not been be made clear in the description at filing? | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <br /><br />Another possibility would be to claim not only A+B but also A+C provided there is unity of invention, or do you want a patent monopoly with less than 15 claims in order to</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1753976094301#c3703770973971814080">Hard to take issue, Pudding, with anything you hav...</a></h5><blockquote>Hard to take issue, Pudding, with anything you have written today. <br /><br />For the avoidance of doubt on the issue of the Geisterfahrer, I do not say that one or other commentator here is one. My point is that, alone | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | of all the world's Patent Offices, the EPO sees fit to enforce, as a condition of allowance, wholesale revision of the text of the description as filed to "conform"</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1754037048515#c2544015805016181134">MaxDrei, you write that for you the meaning of the...</a></h5><blockquote>MaxDrei, you write that for you the meaning of the term 'gathered' in the claim of the patent monopoly leading to G1/24 is clear to you and differs from that included in the description. The meaning of 'gathered' taken by | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the opposition division was, as I understand it, derived from terms used in sewing, rather than articles for smoking. Is 'rolling' not a standard process of</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1754039287901#c7422815216680862567">@ Patent Robot of Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 15:35...</a></h5><blockquote>@ Patent Robot of Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 15:35:00 GMT+<br /><br />I first fail to understand in how far the disclosure A+C can be qualified as “neutral”, whatever “neutral” might mean. <br /><br />Any feature | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | or combination of features mentioned in a patent monopoly description is by essence anything but “neutral”, otherwise the applicant/proprietor would not have brought those in. If the applicant/</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1754043174804#c7191496638608927964">Your point, Kant, escapes me. I am neither a perso...</a></h5><blockquote>Your point, Kant, escapes me. I am neither a person skilled in the art of sewing nor one inthe art of fashioning smoking materials out of tobacco leaves. But I do know what "gathered" means to me and it does not | Aug 02 06:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | include "rolling". I am not an expert in the "gathered" case at the EPO but it was my understanding that i) gathered in the claim gave it patentability over</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 06:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 06:01 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-9.html">OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 9 review - Slowly getting there</a></h5> | Aug 02 09:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 02 09:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>All in all, I believe OnlyOffice 9 is a better product than its previous version. There's a bit more focus on ergonomics. That said, I am not fond of the use of non-standard titlebars, and the UI needs more color and contrast. Functionality wise, documents open too slowly, even brand new blank ones. Styles management can be improved. Microsoft Office compatibility is, well, good, but not p | Aug 02 09:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | erfect. I'm not sure any program out there will ever be able to do that. But if you want something that can come close to the original, OnlyOffice is among the best choices right now. </p> | Aug 02 09:21 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dedoimedo.com | OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 9 review - Slowly getting there | Aug 02 09:21 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/01/curl-adds-parallel-host-control/">curl adds parallel host control</a></h5> | Aug 02 09:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 02 09:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Provided a practically unlimited number of URLs, curl can be asked to get them in a parallel fashion. It then makes sure to keep N transfers alive for as long as there is N or more transfers left to complete, where X is a custom number but 50 by default. </p> | Aug 02 09:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Concurrently transferring data from potentially a large number of different hosts can drastically shorten transfer times and who doesn’t prefer to complete their download job sooner rather than later? </p> | Aug 02 09:52 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-curl adds parallel host control | daniel.haxx.se | Aug 02 09:52 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "" ☛ https://www.webpronews.com/lyon-switches-to-linux-open-source-from-microsoft-by-2026/ | Source: Web Pro News | Aug 02 09:53 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.webpronews.com/lyon-switches-to-linux-open-source-from-microsoft-by-2026/">Lyon Switches to Linux, Open-Source from Microsoft by 2026</a></h5> | Aug 02 09:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 02 09:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>This isn’t an isolated incident; it reflects a broader trend across Europe where governments are reevaluating their reliance on Big Tech. For instance, Denmark’s government recently declared a similar migration to LibreOffice and Linux, driven by fiscal prudence and security imperatives, as reported by ZDNet. In Lyon’s case, the city plans to integrate PostgreSQL for database management, cre | Aug 02 09:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ating a fully open ecosystem that avoids the pitfalls of cloud-dependent services like Microsoft 365. </p> | Aug 02 09:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Industry analysts note that such transitions, while challenging, can yield long-term benefits. Training programs for Lyon’s 8,000-plus employees will be crucial, with potential hurdles in compatibility for legacy documents. Yet, proponents argue that open-source software’s customizability outweighs these issues, allowing tailored solutions without perpetual vendor dependencies. </p> | Aug 02 09:53 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/skype-shutdown-try-jami">Missing Skype? Choose freedom and switch to GNU Jami</a></h5> | Aug 02 09:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 02 09:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>We've been recommending GNU Jami along with other free communication tools for some time now. It, like many other actively developed free programs, has been steadily acquiring both new users and new features. According to a talk we had with a representative from GNU Jami's parent company, users have increased dramatically since Skype's shutdown. Considering how harmful network effects can be, this | Aug 02 09:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | is a win for the free software movement. </p> | Aug 02 09:54 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | Missing Skype? Choose freedom and switch to GNU Jami — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software | Aug 02 09:54 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1754056352446#c5787184150713297427">On further reflection, Kant, on your "gatheri...</a></h5><blockquote>On further reflection, Kant, on your "gathering" point, and about how cigars are made from tobacco leaves, perhaps one can begin the step of rolling the leaves only after one has completed a step of "gather | Aug 02 10:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ing" them. In that case though, gathering, in this particular context, being notoriously old, is no help towards patentability.</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 10:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 10:55 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-referral-on-description.html?showComment=1754078241597#c2685628389535917478">@ Patent Robot Friday, 1 August 2025 at 12:52:00 G...</a></h5><blockquote>@ Patent Robot Friday, 1 August 2025 at 12:52:00 GMT+1<br /><br />For your example 1: “If B is not described sufficiently but C describes a feature common to B which renders B sufficiently disclosed: explicitly disclaim | Aug 02 10:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ing A+C” might in no way “nullify claim A+B for insufficiency”, as what you claim disclaim is the combination of A+C, but you do not disclaim C as such. If you would disclaim C as</blockquote></li> | Aug 02 10:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | BREAKING: Referral on description amendments finally confirmed! (G1/25 - "Hydroponics") - The IPKat | Aug 02 10:55 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-210/">This Week in GNOME: #210 Periodic Updates</a></h5><blockquote><p>Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 25 to August 01.<!--more--></p> </blockquote></li> | Aug 02 12:17 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thisweek.gnome.org | #210 Periodic Updates | Aug 02 12:17 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In other tech giants like Microsoft, Meta etc… at past 50 years old or few years less, you are automatically replaced; and cannot coast your entire career, you would at IBM | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ed+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dz | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You meant what should, not what is as sales strategy and I agree. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Won't happen due to how it's all structured, can't pivot to what you say and limit future sales. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e7+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dy | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Well, consulting is flat so either way Q2 ain't good then. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e2+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dw and @dp | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "IMHO, you are partly right. I say this because those same IBM board members (and they are mostly aging dinosaurs" | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I don't disagree about the dinosaurs comment: These people install themselves in there with lots of glue so they are stuck in there. But in other places, just not IBM it did work many times (people that were there long, that is), IBM has the wrong dinosaurs. Many tech execs AK's age can run around him in circles. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But I'm very happy to be wrong... | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "It’s not about talent but about costs" | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I agree, but whether he was told or he came to do it intentionally or not is irrelevant, it is actually all he can do anyway (no gray material for anything else). | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As for Ginni, I may have been too optimistic that somehow it would work? | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I still hope and pray that things change.... and soon. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thank you for a good discussion. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e1+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As absolutely terrible as GR and AK have been, I have no doubt that RT will be way worse. He doesn't have a leadership bone in his body. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 7 reactions (+6/-1) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e0+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dy | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I was referring to future sales strategy, needs to eventually sell like software, othwrwise it's not sustainable. Bur I can be wrong, and if I am, it's fine. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dz+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d2 Growth trajectory for AI is not dependent on SW sales. 90% of the Generative AI number they report is Consulting. And 90% of that is just regular work tagged AI, somebody used ChatGPT to write a client email on SAP project? GenAI!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+5/-1) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dy+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dp | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IMHO, you are partly right. I say this because those same IBM board members (and they are mostly aging dinosaurs if you read their bios in the IBM annual report - they masquerade as experienced executives and managers, BUT they are still dinosaurs) and Wall Street and pension fund investors will be showing Alvind the door double quick (he is a peon employee too), as the stock price drops back to where it started. After all cutting | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | costs can only take you so far and in the final analysis, it's all about business - it's been great knowing you, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. It's the hypocrisy that one expects of the vulture capitalist culture. Nobody is indispensable. If I got that wrong, please correct me. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+5/-1) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dw+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It’s not about talent but about costs; the board selected AK because they needed Indian without feelings to cleanup the house, and because they needed a CEO to outsource jobs to India and low cost areas in order to cut costs and clean up the house from aging dinosaurs ; the board and the investors (mutual/pension funds) only cares about the stock performance. They could care less about the peon employees | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+4/-2) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dp+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @de | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Adding, yeah, Red Hat, yada, yada, still he wasn't the man to get the top job. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @df+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @dc | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I hear you. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | My humble two cents. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1) Arvind is worse than Ginni. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2) Ginni came from Strategy, what she lacked was exectuion, she needed support to get her vision delivered, but the team behind her wasn't there. One of them being Arvind, so that's why I can't undersrsannd how and why he was promoted. I watched the press conference the other day (JFK Jr and Dr Oz on Healh Tech) and thought, bummer, this could have been IBM... I believe that IBM messed up with Ginni's succession plan. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3) Arvind has neither qualities, meaning, no strategy, no execution). He's deeply boring. Makes IBM look not exciting. It's a drag. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @de+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | All the hate for Ginni. I get it. But I had a career when Ginni was here. A future. Now every day feels like my last. Who cares about the stock price when your future looks dismal? And too old to find another job - ageism is an American tradition. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Personally, I found Watson Health to be absolutely a genius concept. The problem is that IBM has no appetite for true investment. If something doesn't pay off right away, they bail. The fact we sold Watson Health rather than try to fix it tells you all you need to know about Arvind's big AI push. It's a sham. We were never a true AI company not if we were dumping one of the most potential lucrative markets for AI in the future whil | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | e trying to enter AI as a market. It makes no sense and we had no real plan other than to jump on ChatGPT's coattails. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You think Apple gets everything right the first time? They fail a lot; they just don't brag about it. They also don't try to turn a profit before the product is ready. AI in health is going to be a game changer and once again, IBM chickens out before realizing any of the return on investment. That's a failure of leadership - Ginni then Arvind. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Blue ballz | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+6/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dc+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @d6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes! | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1) Whether IBM really learned the "Ginni lesson" remains to be seen (keeping a CEO that is not performing for far too long), Ginni almost 9 years, Arvind almost 5 1/2 years. 14-15 years all-in-all. That's a lot of time wasted. But, what's the plan? | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2) Agree 100%, Q3 will not be good (the numbers and actions are just not there), Hopefully, there is a plan behind the scenes. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3) Also, Arvind is just not inspiring. When he talks, it's like watching paint dry. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4) Question, are insiders like Ginni and Arcind the right choice moving forward? | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+8/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d9+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d2 I remember that Alvind was encouraging many employees to buy IBM stock when he first came in. He was pumping it once he got the CEO job and used every meeting on w3 to tell employees that he had a vision to take the stock to $300. It was a bold and brash prediction in the days when the stock was languishing at around $150 for years. Ginny Rometty was the fraud and incompetent CEO that no one inside IBM spoke against but she sho | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | uld have been fired at least 5 years prior to her date of departure. She was a total disaster, especially with the Watson Healthcare debacle. Who puts their incompetent relative to run a division that is failing and incurring bigger losses every quarter ? Ginny did. And who insisted that she produced great results for IBM and needed more time as CEO, even when the results of every quarter spoke of abject failure and more layoffs ? | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ginny did. Why Alvind even pushed her garbage autobiography book on the IBM intranet is a total mystery. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Well, Alvind was successful upto a point, but the IBM stock price has never reached $300. All good things come to an end, don't they (bad things do the same thing also) ? At some point reality catches up, you miss your mark and you fall back to earth with a different and steeper trajectory than the one you took to go up. It could be happening now. Alvind can forget his bonus if things get worse in Q3 2025 (as I suspect they will). | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I wonder what Jim Cramer is going to say about all this, since has been pushing the IBM stock over the past few weeks. I suspect he will just shrug his shoulders, button his lips and move on to the next rising star in the stable. You win a few, you lose a few. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And as they say, life goes on. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+6/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d6+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @ae | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind's Family and Friends outsourcing ain't helping him. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 11 reactions (+11/-0) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d4+1k1kggwf6 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +9 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ae | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To be fair, the stock of MANY tech companies has been inflated – AND it still is even with the latest market corrections, we are here for a longer ride. It was going to happen eventually, but the fake bonanza would have lasted just a bit longer. The correction happened earlier as a result of other reasons, which forced the harsh reality to come out of the shadow. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In January 2020, the month of the Arvind announcement, the closing price was $107.46 (January 31, 2020). Did he create enough value in 5+ years to get to where it was in June 2025 (close to $300)? Nope. | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The market saw initially momentum building up for IBM based on 1Q 25 results, but 2Q 2025 earnings (July 23) were a different story when looking deeper. Software down, flat consulting revenue, increased expenses and interest burden. Growth trajectory for AI and hybrid cloud is heavily reliant on software sales. Slowing organic software revenue growth are a weakness. Arvind also goes and talks about “geopolitical tensions are prom | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pting a few clients to move cautiously." Speaking of putting more salt to the wound... | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The dude has been CEO for more than 5 years (let's include his prep time since his announcement as incoming CEO, because he had several months to prep and he’s also an insider). | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | What can he pull off to stay for a bit longer? TBH, dunno… | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 11 reactions (+10/-1) | Reply | Aug 02 19:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | +13 | Aug 02 19:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Perspective people. On 1/1/2024 IBM stock closed at $159. Absolutely nothing in the following 18 months justified the runup to $296. Just a bunch of empty promises about AI and Quantum that will never happen. It's headed right back to that level. | Aug 02 19:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1nt0c1e | Aug 02 19:45 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Almaden layoffs? | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Summary: | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM is relocating its research scientists from the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab, raising uncertainty about the future of the historic Almaden site. While IBM has not confirmed whether Almaden will be shut down or if other staff will be laid off, internal silence and forum speculation suggest the site may close by year’s end. | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Almaden, established in 1986, played a key role in IBM’s technological legacy, contributing to major innovations like the hard disk drive and relational databases. The move was publicly confirmed by Jay Gambetta, VP of Quantum at IBM, who emphasized continuity of research and innovation, though employees were reportedly instructed not to discuss the move publicly. | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The shift aligns with IBM’s broader pattern of relocations—reflected in the company nickname “I’ve Been Moved”—and coincides with corporate strategies encouraging on-site work. Critics say these are tactics to prompt voluntary resignations from long-tenured, higher-cost employees. Additionally, IBM recently announced layoffs in Texas and the demolition of its former Endicott, NY facility, further underscoring its changi | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ng footprint. | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Despite no official word on Almaden’s fate, current and former researchers are expressing dismay, mourning the likely end of an iconic research institution. | Aug 02 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ibm_almaden_research_center/?td= | Aug 02 19:45 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center • The Register | Aug 02 19:49 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "The GNOME Foundation has not published an annual report — or a financial or IRS tax reports — covering any time after the summer of 2023 (two years ago). | Aug 02 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They’re finally working on a new annual report (for up through the summer of 2024… nothing that covers the last year)… and the numbers are just as dire as you’d expect. GNOME continued running a deficit of several hundred thousand dollars per year. | Aug 02 20:07 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Here are screenshots of the financial details section of the current internal draft of their “up through summer of 2024” annual report." | Aug 02 20:07 |
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