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Without IBM, Microsoft Would Not Have Taken Off. Both Companies Need to be 'Taken Down'.

'Former' Red Hat Staff Upset That Techrights Covers IBM Accounting Problems

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 05, 2026

Entropy 2

Arvind, you just need to use the buckets; Do whatever, just make sure IBM pays me $100,000,000 in bonuses

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I find it both bizarre and amusing, as pointed out in passing last week as well as earlier last month [1, 2], that an article I wrote about IBM's accounting problems and nothing else was wedged into a bundle sent to us by solicitors regarding a person who works for NVIDIA. He sent us about 5,000 pages of legal papers this week alone! And it's only Thursday.

Are we touching a sensitive subject at IBM? So let's dig even deeper. █

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