Without IBM, Microsoft Would Not Have Taken Off. Both Companies Need to be 'Taken Down'.
Both are enemies of users' freedom: IBM Hates Computer Freedom. This Means Red Hat Too is an Enemy of Software Freedom.
IBM engages in buybacks - just like Microsoft - to fake its worth. It also manipulates earning [sic] figures and the US government mostly lets them get away with it (for fear of 'crashing' the market by properly regulating the market).
Microsoft took off because of an IBM deal, but this wasn't a case of "right place at the right time"; it was nepotism - a form of corruption - as the mother of Bill Epsteingate was inside IBM's Board.
IBM has always been trying to pressure me for about 15 years (since I was young and this site too was young). I confronted them about this. IBM has since then taken over Red Hat and killed the "Open Source Way" in the company. Whistleblowers tell us they hate IBM, some of them quit in quiet protest.
20 years ago we fought against Novell because Novell had become a vassal of Microsoft and Novell actively promoted Microsoft's interests inside many projects. The Novell CEO who did this for Microsoft (until Novell ceased to exist) had come from IBM. Unlike his predecessors, he failed to recognise what Microsoft truly was (to Novell and to others).
Novell boycotts worked. Maybe it's time to boycott IBM as well. █
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