Ageism at IBM Has a Long, Sad, Sordid History
WHENEVER IBM and its proxies lecture us on tolerance and inclusiveness we need to be equipped - for our own sake - with proper, factual and contextual information, however inconvenient or suppressed. IBM has plenty to hide.
Today we'll touch one example. Cultural shifts can reinforce nihilism - a devaluation of human life. We already see some of the high-profile community leaders demonised, defamed, even dehumanised. Some people demand their death.
Ageism that includes euthanasia of old people:
The IBM link:
They targeted the "aged". IBM still does.
IBM continues a tradition that Germany discontinued after WWII.
Here is Mr. IBM himself. He reportedly saluted Hitler himself. Seriously! IBM still calls its products after him ("Watson").
There's a lesson somewhere in there...
IBM has a sinister PR agenda in the making, still cooking experimentally (sometimes it backfires and they try another approach, like IBM staff running/leading/managing* an anti-RMS "open letter" that contains defamation and calls for organisational 'cleansing'). People built an operating system to replace UNIX/AIX for IBM, mostly for free. IBM then bought Red Hat, which it had funded, except the volunteers (slaves) in "labour camps" like Fedora. Now it wants to take it proprietary and find some excuses to oust the people who led such community-centric efforts.
"That's not good," an associate explains. "There has been coordinated effort around to suppress even discussion of software freedom. OSI and Linux Foundation have been an active part of that suppression."
Watch who they front for! Check who leads and sponsors them. █
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* And ironically the person who did this now qualifies for state-imposed euthanasia under "T4" policy.