Bonum Certa Men Certa
← 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 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

Openwashing power (very expensive hardware that needs dishonest marketing to sell) and political power, but power is still power and one day it'll be misused really badly as it's the region most likely to inflame nuclear conflict in the coming years

Tariq Jameel hotline: More power to autocrats, with nukes even



Summary: As we noted last week, IBM is very close to Modi because it is moving a lot of its workforce to India [1, 2] and this can become a future liability to IBM's reputation (or lack thereof) as a tolerant firm

Close-ups:

Modi nukes



Modi and IBM

← 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 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 →

Recent Techrights' Posts

Central Staff Committee on EPO Bribing Its Critics, Using a "Sharp and Abrupt Reduction, Estimated at 80% to 90%, in the Number of Refusals and Summons for Oral Proceedings in Areas Related to Software Patents"
silence would be a form of enhanced complicity, in effect endorsing both bribes and violation of the EPC
Speaking Truth to Power (More Effectively)
Behind every 'tech' giant there's some dark secret and they already seek to demonise/discredit critics/exposers
 
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 20, 2024
IRC logs for Friday, September 20, 2024
[Meme] EPO Suckers
The EPO's president refers to himself as "the f**king president" (maybe he knows why)
Links 20/09/2024: Qualcomm Layoffs, Interest Rates Fall
Links for the day
Gemini Links 20/09/2024: 3K Run and Lagrange 1.18
Links for the day
Spam of the Day (Yes, Brittany Day Again)
They leverage LLMs for SEO purposes
Links 20/09/2024: Chinese Botnet Dismantled, More EU Shake-ups
Links for the day
Links 20/09/2024: European Commission on Microsoft Competition Abuses, More Revelations About Mass Layoffs at IBM and Microsoft
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 19, 2024
IRC logs for Thursday, September 19, 2024
Links 19/09/2024: UPC Illegal 'Court' and Microsoft LinkedIn Called Out for Data Misuse
Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/09/2024: Invidious Problems and Install Times
Links for the day
Links 19/09/2024: Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ and More Microsoft TCO Tales
Links for the day
In Sweden, GNU/Linux Almost 20% of the Laptop/Desktop Market, Firefox Falls to 2%
In the US, once a browser falls below 2%, many critical sites can legally ignore it (or its users' needs) altogether
When Microsoft Pays a Lot of Money to Reddit, 'Linux' Foundation, and Countless Other Entities
As does Google
A CoC Will Destroy Your Free Software Community and Help Imposers of CoC (Like Microsoft)
Abusers like to disguise censorship (of their abuse) as "manners" or good "conduct"
IBM Likely Breaking Several Laws With Latest 'Secret' Mass Layoffs
Never sign an NDA
Gemini Links 19/09/2024: Emacs Wiki and China, IRC Chatting
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 18, 2024