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Category:Sabotage Category:Comes v Microsoft Category:Antitrust Category:Microsoft Category:OS/2 Category:IBM This index deals with Techrights articles about IBM, as well as (further down the bottom) Comes vs Microsoft court exhibits which offer a glance at the history of Microsoft abuse. For a concise summary of some of the exhibits, see "Petition text - overview". See the IBM Archive for a more complete listing of posts.

For more recently relevant material we precede this page with articles about IBM's changing tone/tune/attitude, exacerbating around the time they sought to oust community leaders in favour of corporate actors.

Intolerance at IBM (Incomplete List From 2020-2021)

Racism

IBM/Azure's Elana Hashman, Only Two Months After Starting a Campaign to Delete RMS, Said Israel Should Not Exist

IBM as Master of Hypocrisy

3.5 Years Later the ‘Master’ of Fedora is Still Microsoft and IBM Cannot Be Bothered to Alter Git Branch Names (Refuting or Ignoring Its Very Own Directive About Supposedly Racially-Insensitive Terms)

Meme: IBM Has Paid ZDNet to Troll the Community

Imperialistic Blacklist Machines: Racist IBM and Red Hat — Just Like Donald Trump — Have Turned Fedora Into an Utterly Racist Project That Blacklists, Shuns and Permanently Bans People Based on Their Nationality Alone

The Biggest Troll is the Linux Foundation, Still Looking to Provoke and Defame Free Software Communities in Order to Help a Monopolistic Takeover and to Shoehorn Tyrants Into Leadership Positions

Documentary: IBM Founder (Watson) Gave a Nazi Salute, Admired Hitler, Said Hitler Was Doing the Right Thing

Sarcasm: IBM is Not Racist

Red Hat (IBM): FSF is Vile, Microsoft is Great; Our Sexism and Racism Are Also OK

IBM Stroking the Masters

IBM Doubles Down on Masters Being an Acceptable Word in the Context of Technology

IBM: We Can Say It… You Cannot

IBM Presidents Teaching the FSF About Morality

Red Hat (IBM) Has No Moral High Ground to Stand on

Technology Will Become More Inclusive When We Identify and Tackle the Root Causes, and Choice of Words Ain’t That

We Need to Keep the Word ‘Master’ to Explain What Large Corporations Have Become to Society (Same Corporations Trying to Abolish This Word)

Misusing the Linux Brand for Reputation Laundering and Openwashing of Racist Companies (Which Profit From Racism)

IBM’s “Emb(RACE)” Campaign is an Insult to History and Historians

IBM: The Word “Master” is Rude (Except When We Use It Ourselves)

Computer Prisons Are Prisons of the Mind; Calling Them ‘Blackboxes’ Isn’t as Offensive as What They Actually Do

IBM Fought for ‘Master Race’ and Now It’s Banning the Word ‘Master’

IBM’s Founder, Mr. Watson (Yes, That Watson), Had “Very Keen Sense of Public Relations”

Public Relations and Tolerance Stunts Are Very, Very Cheap

Words Can Hurt Feelings. But So Can Eugenics and Wars (Not Mere Words) of Conquest.

Ban Genocide, Not Words

Edwin Black Explains Why IBM Was the Worst and the Only One to Obstruct His Research (Into IBM’s Dark Past)

2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist and Intolerant Regimes

IBM Never Apologised For Making Billions Out of Overt Racism, Now It Wants to Ban Words Used to Communicate Such Issues and It’s Bombarding Journalists to Seed Misleading Puff Pieces

The Full Story (With References) of IBM’s Role in a Purge of Black People and Mixed-Race Couples

International Business Machines and the 1941 Watson Letter Which Refutes IBM Denials

Social Justice is Fine… When It is Not Just a Shallow Marketing Ploy

Focus on the Big Issues, Not the Words

IBM Racism Explained by an Insider

Ageism

When Only Rich and Powerful Corporations Can Use Slurs and Hurt Marginalised/Vulnerable People

Sexism

Real Feminism is Grassroots, Not a Corporate Ploy (to Improve Image and Sales)

Faked Diversity in ‘Men-Only Clubs’ (and Corporations)

IBM Likes to Speak About Diversity in Order to Distract or Confuse People About IBM’s Past and Present

Video: Removing Our Leaders Because of Diversity is Disingenuous and Hypocritical

Journey Back in History: Misconduct or Disorderly Conduct (Stuffing Money Down the Fronts of Stewardesses’ Blouses, According to Witness Account) by Arthur Watson of IBM (Founder’s Son and Former IBM Chief), Followed by Watson’s Admission and Resignation

The ‘Access Watson Tapes’: Rare Richard Nixon Tape on Former IBM President and Son of IBM’s Founder Engaging in Sexual Abuse of Women

Meet the IBM Watsons: Sponsors of Richard Nixon and Abusers of Women

IBM (Red Hat) Lectured FSF That It Needed More Diversity, But Was It Looking at the Mirror? IBM and Red Hat Are Even Less Diverse.

Diversity Comes in Many Forms

Nationalism

IBM Should Cancel IBM If It Cares About Morality

New Interview With Edwin Black: IBM Has Never Apologised, Instead It Hid Its Role in Nazi Germany

Banning Words, Gaslighting Volunteers

IBM is Just Another Surveillance Company (Usually Working With or For Governments)

IBM is Associating Closely With Modi This Month (Same Modi Who Also Associates With Bill Gates, Profiteer in ‘Charity’ Clothing)

Why We Illuminate IBM’s Dark History (and Present)

IBM Has Learned Nothing

“Watson®” is a Lot More Offensive Than “Whitelist” and “Master”

Militarism

IBM and Red Hat Boycott Russia and Belarus, But IBM's History Tells a Different Story

IBM and the Bomb: Series Index (on 75th Anniversary of Atomic Bombs Being Dropped on Civilians)

IBM and the Bomb – Part VI: Diplomacy Replaced With ‘Trade’ (Money Over Politics), or How Watson Jr. Was Sold to the Public, in the Same Way His Father (IBM Co-founder) Sold His Business Relationship With Dictators Like Hitler

IBM and the Bomb – Part V: Arms Control by Company That Profits From Nuclear Arms? World War II Mistakes Repeated?

IBM and the Bomb – Part IV: IBM’s Watson Came Under Fire for Representing the U.S. in U.S.S.R./Russia With No Qualifications or Any Relevant Experience

IBM Loves Power (and Nuclear POWER, or Expensive OpenPOWER) More Than It Loves GNU/Linux

IBM and the Bomb – Part III: IBM’s Watson Jr. Rose From Business V.I.P. to U.S. Ambassador in the Soviet Union During the Cold War (Which IBM Profited From)

IBM and the Bomb – Part II: How IBM Sneaks Into Positions of Power (and Nuclear Power, Global Superpower, Nuclear Weapons)

IBM and the Bomb – Part I: How IBM Played a Technical and Diplomatic Role in the Cold War

Declassified 6-8 Years Ago: Thomas Watson Jr. (Son of IBM Founder) as Politician Navigating Cold War Politics

Let’s Ban Bombings, Not Words (Corporations Taking Away People’s Freedom of Speech So They Can Bomb ‘in Peace’)

Giving Awards to Raytheon Won’t Help Red Hat’s Image

Attacking Communities/Volunteers

Internet Tribunal Rules That IBM Has Harassed Free Software Volunteers (SLAPP)

IBM Declares Defeat/Failure, 'Shuts Down' Campaign of Anti-Richard Stallman Rhetoric (Defamation)

IBM Cannot Possibly Recover by Attacking the Software Community and Alienating Geeks

5 Months Later People Still Remove Their Names From the Slanderous Anti-RMS Petition, Managed by IBM Staff

Fedora Council is Just a Mouthpiece and Instrument of IBM Management, It Doesn’t Speak For (What Used to Be) Fedora Project/Community

IBM and RMS Are Not Compatible

Twitter and Hacker News Are Sensitive (Updated) (Censorship by IBM)

IBM and Qt Don’t Understand Free Software and They Now Impose Terms and Conditions on Who Qualifies for Use of Free Software Free of Charge

OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom

IBM is Throwing Away Red Hat’s ‘de Facto Standard’ Status in Servers, Wrongly Assuming People Can’t (or Won’t) Go Elsewhere

Why GNU/Linux Users (and the Public at Large) Should Support Leaking/Whistleblowing Sites (Including Wikileaks)

When Proprietary Software Users Dictate the Freedom-Leaning Communities

Video: The State of Communities Surrounding GNU/Linux Distributions

IBM Panics and Resorts to ‘Customer Retention’ Tactics With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

IBM is Not a Community

IBM: We’re Fighting for Ethics, But We Screw the Community for Money

With the Appalling (But Perhaps Predictable) CentOS Move IBM Showed Its True Face and Intentions

IBM Keeps Weakening Its Commitment to Developers and Software Communities

The Risk of Having Corporate Patrons is Disgrace by Association and Loss of True Independence (Freedom to Criticise Anyone)

IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn’t Even Using GNU/Linux

There’s Apparently a New Boss (or Policy) at Red Hat/IBM

Red Hat Betrayed the Free Software Community With Its Software Patents’ Stockpiling Drive and Then a Sale to the Biggest Software Patents Lobbyist

Let IBM/Red Hat Lecture Us on Morality

The Rumours of North Carolina Layoffs and the Atmosphere at IBM/Red Hat Under New Management

Red Hat/IBM Got ‘Tired’ of RMS. Is It Getting ‘Tired’ of GPL/Copyleft Too?

Older Articles About IBM

2023 Onwards

Red Hat Under IBM is Lying to Us, It's Not Trustworthy Anymore

IBM Has Moved Away From Standards and Freedom, Red Hat's Leadership Has Changed, So Users Should Probably Move Away From Red Hat

Big Blue Blues: How IBM is Betraying Red Hat Staff and the Rest of Us

Almost 4 Months After IBM (Red Hat) Sacked Red Hat's Open Source People the Site Open Source dot Com Remains Dead

In Numbers: Fedora is Becoming Orphaned (Exodus), Many Packages Lack Essential Maintainers

Since IBM (Red Hat) Blasted the Free Software Foundation for Lack of Diversity IBM's Board of Directors — the Decision Makers of IBM — Reduced Women's Participation From 3 to Just 2

IBM Signals That Fedora is Basically Finished, as Work on Desktop Spins Collapses in a Matter of Days

IBM is Killing Fedora (While It is Promoting Microsoft's Proprietary Junk)

IBM/Red Hat Fedora: Community Of Moderator-Led Harassment. (Very Family-Oriented.)

IBM Red Hat Kills LibreOffice In Fedora and RHEL; Says “No longer has resources to maintain them.”

The Rumours About Another Round of Layoffs at Red Hat

Graph of IBM's Debt Helps Shed Light on the Red Hat Squeeze

9 Weeks Since Last OpenSource.com Article, But Don't Worry, IBM Says It'll be Back Any Day Now

New developments at Opensource.com 4 weeks later: NOTHING.

What IBM Does to RHEL is Neither Surprising Nor Acceptable

IBM/Red Hat Adds Code of Censorship to an Important GNU Project, GCC (the Compiler), Despite Longstanding Opposition From RMS and FSF (the Origins of GNU)

IBM Responds to Techrights Report (Citing Inside Sources): No, We Did Not Kill OpenSource.com, We Cannot Explain What We Did

IBM’s War on Open (Look at the Pattern of Layoffs at Red Hat)

SiliconANGLE: Sponsored by Microsoft and Red Hat to Conduct the Marriage Ceremony

IBM Loves Microsoft

IBM Versus GNU/Linux Community (Including Fedora)

Confirmed: IBM is Shutting Down Sites of Red Hat (Staff Writers Discarded)

Almost Nobody Reporting What IBM is Doing to the Free Software Community

IBM Has Killed OpenSource.com, Rejecting the Open Source Way

It's Certainly Beginning to Seem Like Red Hat (IBM) Fired Writers and/or Editors

IBM Has Measurably Lessened Activity in Red Hat Web Sites (It Started When Layoffs Were Announced Last Month)

The Layoffs at Red Hat Validate What We've Said for Years About IBM's Hostility

2022 Onwards

Next Casualty of IBM: Red Hat's Free Software-Centric Web Sites

The Exodus Continues: It’s Already Hard Keeping Track of So Many Managers and Executives Who Left Red Hat Under IBM’s ’Leadership' (in Attacking the Community)

IBM’s Lobbying for (and Stockpiling of) Software Patents is Ruining Fedora and GNU/Linux in General

IBM is Outsourcing Key Parts of GNU to Microsoft Linux Foundation

Meme The Big News is That Big Blue Has Driven Away Tons of Essential Engineers and Managers of Red Hat

IBM/Red Hat Promoting Microsoft Surveillance and Proprietary Software Instead of Freedom-Centric, Self-Hosted, Privacy-Respecting, and 'Real' GNU/Linux Servers

When It Comes to Software Patents, IBM is Still a Big Bully (and Red Hat's Patents Can Become Part of the Big Blue Bullying)

2021 Onwards

Many IBM Layoffs (in Marketing), But the Media Is Not Mentioning Those Layoffs At All

Investigation Needed Into the Full Story of Jim Whitehurst’s Departure From IBM

The Patent Battles in Europe Are Connected to the War on GNU/Linux (as a Community-Led Effort)

USPTO for Monopolies, Keeping GNU/Linux in the Dark

Conflict of Interest: Microsoft and IBM Controlling the USPTO and Leaving GNU/Linux Users Shut Out (in the Cold)

IBM is Destroying Red Hat and Red Hatters Are Leaving

Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls — Part III: The Technical and Legal Burden as Weapon Against the Community

Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls — Part I: The Big Corporations Are Largely Culpable

Things IBM Can Do to Help the GNU/Linux Community Instead of Trying to Monopolise Almost Everything

How the Big Banks and OIN Can Whitewash Software Patents and Do Nothing Concrete About Patent Trolls

Open Invention Network (OIN) and Big Banks: Shared Agenda

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

FOSDEM and Free Speech: Will It Blend?

Fake Security is Still a Real Problem, Even in the GNU/Linux (and BSD) Spheres

2020 (Patents Focus)

Christmastime Extortion Shows That IBM Has Not Changed Since Buying Red Hat and It’s Still a Patent Bully

In Spite of IBM’s Difficult Past and Particularly Dark History, Under Arvind Krishna’s Leadership It Has Only Shown Signs of Improving

The Militarised Elephant in the Room Still Commands a Lot of Free Software Development

Beyond Shameful: Microsoft and IBM Lobbyist David Kappos Uses COVID-19 Lies to Push for Software Patents From the Back Door, Undermining What Courts Have Determined

Under IBM’s Leadership Red Hat Becomes a SPAM Marketing Operation, Sending Mass Mails Without Authorisation and Making It Impossible to Unsubscribe

United States v IBM Archives/Resources

Fearmongering Was Originally an IBM Thing, Not a Microsoft Thing

OpenPOWER or Just White POWER?

The Only Thing Worse Than Proprietary Software Companies is Proprietary Software Companies That Patent Algorithms

Two Things IBM and Microsoft Have in Common: Layoffs and Fake Hype Like ‘Clown Computing’ and ‘Hey Hi’ (AI) as Perceived ‘Opportunity’ for ‘Growth’

Free Software is Being Abandoned by Opponents of Software Patents and It’s Being Attacked by Patent Trolls

Microsoft and IBM Are the Patent Trolls, They Won’t Protect Us From Trolls

2017

IBM Helps a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Create Another Trolling Branch, Known as Finjan Blue

2014

IBM Shows That Collaborations With the NSA Are a Company’s Death Knell

2013

IBM Ignores Small Companies’ Interests, Denies Patent Scope is a Problem, Focusing on Its Own Problems (Trolls) Instead

Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls

IBM-backed Book on ‘Open Innovation’

2012

Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels

IBM Propaganda for Software Patents Rebutted by Masnick

IBM, Microsoft, and the BSA Promote Software Patents in New Zealand Behind the Scenes

[With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List

2011

Google’s IBM Patents Feast: Good or Bad?

IBM Brings OIN-Like Mentality to Europe

IBM Needs to Explain Office Suite Patents (and How Bill Gates Was Attacking Interoperability With Lotus, Using Patents Against OpenOffice.org)

IBM PR is ‘Shaping’ the News (and Asks to Remain Secret)

IBM Takes ODF to Another Level

Microsoft is in a Freefall, IBM Surpasses it in Value

IBM and Google Still Not Committed to Crushing Software Patents

Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono

US Justice Department Takes on the MPEG Cartel as IBM Distances Itself From Cartel Defenders

When Microsoft and IBM Met Intellectual Protectionism

Eclipse Foundation Director: “Software Patents Are Basically a Bad Idea”; IBM Still Celebrating Patents

Big Blue’s Winter of Shame

EMC, IBM, HP, and SAP Dump the BSA

2010

With IBM Funding, Microsoft Software Patents Are Targeted by Peer To Patent

IBM and Tandberg Abuse Software Patents by Using Them to Rip Off Real Innovators

IBM’s Rob Weir Argues TalkStandards.com is Fronting for Microsoft, Steve Mutkoski (Microsoft) to Lobby for Patented Standards at Transformational Government Workshop

What IBM, Apple, and Pharmaceutical Giants Could Learn From Andre Konstantinovich Geim

Campaigner for Hire Blames IBM for Air Crash

IBM Challenges Gartner Group’s Credibility

Antitrust Attacks on IBM Carried Out by Microsoft and its “Satellite Proxies,” According to IBM

Patents Roundup: FFII Founder on IBM, Shazam Has No Case, Microsoft Wants to ‘Own’ Page-flipping, and Software Freedom is Hurt

“Florian Mueller Appears to be Assigned to IBM Whereas Monty Seems to be Pointed at Oracle.”

IBM Should Have Gone With rPath

IBM Uses Software Patents Aggressively

IBM’s Black Helicopters

Recommendations for OIN, IBM, and Florian Müller

IBM Might Pay Microsoft Even More for Imaginary Software Patents (in Linux) Through SUSE/Novell

OpenDocument Format (ODF) Shows That It Would Have Been Better If IBM Bought Sun

Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA

Why IBM Does Deserve Scrutiny (Updated)

IBM’s Day of Shame

IBM on Withdrawing Microsoft’s OOXML

Patents Roundup: IBM Helps Software Patents Spread to India and Gets Sued for Patent Violations; ELSE Joins LiMo Patent Pool

GNU/Linux (or Google and IBM) is Replacing Microsoft

2009

David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence

Patents Roundup: IBM Patents Patent Harvesting, Bilski Still in IBM’s David Kappos Hands to Decide

Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux

IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco

The Microsoft Lobby and Heavy Investments Put IBM in Antitrust Probe

Masters of FUD: Apple, IBM, and Microsoft

IBM’s Latest Filing Regarding SCO Bankruptcy Mentions “Fraud”

Important Precedence: IBM Threatens to Sue Microsoft Over Propaganda Site

Patents Roundup: What Bilski Means to IBM, Microsoft; Patent Trolls Still Win

Patents Roundup: IBM/Dojo, Patent Punishments, and Europe’s Race to Community(-Hostile) Patent

Microsoft Fragments ODF While Trying to Paint it as “IBM Thing”

IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software

Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF

Microsoft and Novell (Almost Merged) versus IBM and Sun (to be Merged)

Microsoft Pays Professor to Write a Paper Against IBM’s GNU/Linux-Powered Mainframes

Has Microsoft Just Invested in Another Lawsuit Against IBM?

2008

Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please

IBM Influence in Novell

IBM Vice President: Requires Silverlight? No Thanks.

Time for IBM to Take the Lead a ‘Pull a re Bilski’ on Software Patents

A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell

India Might Can ISO; IBM Opposition Backed by LF, Seeks Broader Crowd

Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part II)

Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part I)

Did Microsoft Attack IBM by Proxy to Restrain OOXML Critics?

IBM on Open Source, Standards, and OOXML (Video)

Does IBM Keep Patent Trolls on Their Toes by Overwhelming the USPTO?

Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice President

Microsoft et al Caught Trolling — Lying About IBM and OOXML

2007

Microsoft Lobbies for OOXML Through Proxies, IBM Does Its Own Legwork

IBM’s Standards Vice President Asks About Mono-free Linux

Novell Still Behind Red Hat and IBM in Terms of Linux Contributions

IBM’s Perspective on the Novell/Microsoft Deal (Video)

IBM Uses Novell to Take Market Share From Rivals Like Oracle

Novell Sidles with IBM’s Rival, Repeats Mistakes

Speculation: IBM Will Buy Novell

2006

ECMA Open XML Approved Despite IBM Objection

Antitrust Against Microsoft

IBM's story about Microsoft is one of betrayal, abuse, and technical sabotage. There are also actions like litigation or harassment by proxy, e.g. TurboHercules vs IBM. Some of the rogue behaviour was documented in the exhibits below.