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day5done reports: "IBM no longer matters"
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Alexander Terekhov |
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day5done reports: "IBM no longer matters" |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:41:23 +0100 |
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IBM no longer matters
IBM no longer matters because Linux no longer matters. Microsoft has
marked Linux and the free software revolution for road kill through a
users tax. Think Novell.
When Linux and free software crawled in bed with IBM it was a warm
fuzzy feeling that was destined to turn cold and hard.
When Microsoft hired IBMs former IP patent head Marshall Phelps in
June 2006, Microsoft announced the beginning of the end of IBMs
schizophrenic gambit with Marxist software. Microsofts trail to
monopolistic dominance is paved with IBMs corporate hide.
The Sixth Circuits Lexmark v. SCC declared the futility of
attempting to protect software with copyright in view of software
patents.
Microsoft now needs only to allow enough competition (approx. 20%) in
the market to keep the antitrust folks off their back.
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He he.
Small correction: Microsoft hired Phelps in 2003.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/08/microsoft_aiming_ibmscale_patent_program/
regards,
alexander.
- day5done reports: "IBM no longer matters",
Alexander Terekhov <=