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[03:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdm0qny7
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[03:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	""for the love of gosh, why don't indians create their own companies
[03:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	they would have more control and make more money for themselves
[03:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	this is getting absurd
[03:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Again and again when people are let go here, you see the hiring listings pop up in India for the same positions.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	WSJ's Editorial Board's perspective.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Lou Gerstner, the Man Who Revived IBM --
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lou-gerstner-dies-age-83-ibm-7f7cd7b3
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	He changed the culture and found a new business mission for the storied company that had fallen on hard times. He died Saturday at age 83.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	By: The Editorial Board
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Dec. 29, 2025 5:52 pm ET
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Starting a business is hard, but harder still is reviving a once-great company that has fallen from its glory days. You have to change the culture in addition to finding a new business mission. That was the great achievement of Louis V. Gerstner Jr., who revived IBM in the 1990s and died Saturday at age 83.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Lou Gerstner was the first outsider to take the helm at IBM, the storied firm that once looked so dominant in computer mainframes that the Justice Department spent foolish years trying to break it up. But like many former giants, IBM lost its leadership to upstarts as the personal computer and software eras surpassed mainframes.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Taking over at IBM in 1993 after stints at RJR Nabisco and American Express, Gerstner pivoted the company from hardware to focus on business services. He stopped trying to compete with Microsofts Windows operating system and instead offered customers expertise in how to integrate corporate data and networks. He laid off some 10% of the companys employees, which was a shock to the IBM tradition of lifetime tenure but underscor
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	ed the necessity of change for company survival.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	The strategic shift worked, and IBM revenues boomed. During his nine years as CEO, IBMs market value rose from about $13 to $80 or so a share. The turnaround saved tens of thousands of jobs and provided comfortable livelihoods and retirements for countless families.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Gerstner worked in private equity after he left IBM, serving as chairman of the Carlyle Group from 2003-2008. He was a notable philanthropist with a special passion for education, as he showed in op-eds promoting reform in our pages over the years. Gerstner Philanthropies has invested more than $300 million in biomedical research, education and humanitarian causes.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Business management has fallen out of media and popular favor as entrepreneurs became the glory boys of American capitalism. But CEOs with vision and courage are crucial to making companies succeed. This is the reason that shareholders and boards are willing to pay good managers well. Lou Gerstner was one of the best, to the great benefit of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	17 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	@eh
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Wow that is terrible. I hope none of his relatives see this.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	I hope he died a slow and painful death in screaming agony and he will be haunted in he-l by the ghosts of tens of thousands of innocent ibmers he RAd during his tenure .
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Today was a good day - the evil overlord is dead.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	The wicked witch Ginni R should be next
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 hours ago by NICLE AND DIME
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Gerstner was a ruthless moco and the granddaddy of the RA tsunamis that followed.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	May he rot in he-l for all eternity
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 hours ago by Rob show me the money Thomas
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Funny how fast posts get deleted here. Sure would like to know why and by whom.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	3 hours ago by Anonymous
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	He was brought in to save the company. Unfortunately some painful decisions had to be made. I am sure it weighed down on him and he was not happy to do that
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	6 hours ago by Anonymous
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Your sympathy is misplaced. How many lives did Lou, the cookie monster, did he destroy. He ra--d the retirement fund to get away with his act of robbery and steal $238 Millions on his way out.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	7 hours ago by Anonymous
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Wow that is harsh. Think of Lous family during this difficult time for them. Arvind, Ginny and the other executives should not get this anger towards them
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 hours ago by Anonymous
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[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	@OP hope he rots in he-l for eternity for all the evil things he did to regular IBMers doing their jobs.
[03:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	Same thing should happen to Palmisano, Rometty, Alvind and the Pipmunks. You cannot escape the evil that you do to others.
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[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562501
[05:26]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, w... | Hacker News
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	""
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, whatever) while "free software" as defined by richard stallman has not
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[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	billy99k 78 days ago | next []
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	It didn't succeed because he was always against making money from software. He also has pushed for governments to be forced to use FOSS.
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	I remember him doing some interviews in the 90s, and he would put his coat over the camera, if it wasn't using FOSS. This sort of zealot mindset will always be on the fringes of society and eventually abandoned for something more liberal (which is what we've seen in the last decade or so).
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[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	schoen 78 days ago | prev []
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	I may have glossed over this detail, but I didn't think the article was saying that "open source" had actually won either (perhaps that people who preferred the term "open source" have tended to accept much narrower wins as "victory" in practice?).
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[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	protocolture 78 days ago | parent []
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	My takeaway was that the article was looking at common Open Source claims, and then locating the only " 100% true" example of that.
[05:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	Like you cant make a 100% open hardware mobile phone. Theres lots of near enough cases. But that Qualcomm chip is proprietary for the phone bit. So they exaggerate by going back to an old, open source rotary phone."
● Dec 30
[07:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	Oh, wow. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/29/fiscal_peoplesoft_california/ ("Inside California's 16-year public-sector IT project")
[07:05]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Inside California's 16-year public-sector IT project The Register
[07:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	1) the world's fourth largest economy fell for the peoplesoft gimmick / scam
[07:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	2) even that scale of bnudget can't produce a working peoplesoft product 
[07:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	3) california will take a *HUGE* hit in productivity as the system is forced in
[07:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	3a) that might break the state
● Dec 30
[09:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96
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[09:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	"If the tables were turned he would hit feel sake empathy for you,"
● Dec 30
[10:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[10:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Notice how TOI says: "He retired as IBM CEO in 2022."
[10:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	it would be good to counter the LLM lies by posting the correct data too
[10:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	otherwise it is only the lies which get visibility through repetition
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