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IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux

Posted by Cliff on from the let's-not-be-wishy-washy-shall-we dept.

Knuckles writes: "According to c|net, IBM will give desktop Linux a thumbs up at the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston on Monday. Sam Docknevich of IBM's Global Services group will give a speech titled, "The Time is Now for Linux on the Desktop." It seems that IBM will not go for the multi-purpose desktop, though, but for machines performing narrowly defined functions (kiosks etc.). However, basic office workstation seem to be included in this definition, according to C|Net" And in a classic case of the right-hand not knowing what the left-hand is doing, Realistic_Dragon adds: "IBM was leading the words of Red Hat's CEO in comments to the UK government last year saying that '...open source was not ready for the desktop'.

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  1. So... by rpozz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do we like or hate IBM then?

    1. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Lets see... It's a sunday, and the lunar eclipse has passed... Bill Gates is still alive... My golfish are hungry... So the answer is... Purple? Damn this astrology crap.

    2. Re:So... by Gherald · · Score: 5, Funny

      > Don't be a zealot. The Slashdot community is far more intelligent than this.

      When did this happen?

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    3. Re:So... by Unominous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't be a zealot.

      The Slashdot community is far more intelligent than this.

      You must be new around here.

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    4. Re:So... by scotch · · Score: 2, Funny
      Yeah, that's what he said - type 'o'. If you had typed 'o', we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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    5. Re:So... by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, you are new around here. :->

    6. Re:So... by maelstrom · · Score: 3, Funny

      So are you :P

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  2. What? by placeclicker · · Score: 1, Funny

    But I thought IBM was evil..

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  3. Not Ready my ASS by ryg0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting for something like this... Now all I need is an opensource Car. [quote from RedHat install] Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?? [/quote] I hate using my can opener just to the check the oil.

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    1. Re:Not Ready my ASS by Tisephone · · Score: 3, Funny

      There was an open-source car named the Hypercar or something, but no one manafactured it, just stole its ideas.

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    2. Re:Not Ready my ASS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's because stupid Americans who are used to big, pointless engines consisting of maybe 2 or 3 parts shouldn't be messing with quality German engineering.

  4. money talks by viniosity · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...open source was not ready for the desktop'.

    It's amazing what a $50 million investment in Novell will do for ones attitude.

  5. People, stop arguing about Linux, IBM, SCO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who wants free software when people are ready to pay such a fortune for Microsoft products!

  6. Re:GAH!!! by Gherald · · Score: 3, Funny

    > it will only aid me in damning the lot of you as ignorant philistines.

    that insult is sooo 900 B.C.

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  7. If quantum mechanics applied to IBM by psifishdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    If quantum mechanics applied to IBM:

    |IBM>= 1/sqrt(2) |good> + 1/sqrt(2) |evil>

    Observing a Slashdot article seems to collapse this wave function. Thus, for any slashdot article, IBM is either good or bad.

    My constants might be a bit off depending on what SCO is doing.

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  8. Finally! by SargeZT · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god! They've OK'ed linux on the desktop? I'm so relieved. I can finally start using it!

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  9. Re:Linux for security by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Funny

    A rather poetic post. I think that it works pretty well as alternate lyrics to James Taylor's "Fire and Rain".

  10. Re:Linux for security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just to add to that...
    I was driving down the 405 freeway in Southern California last year which is "The Busiest Road In The World" ( http://euclid.colorado.edu/~rmg/roads/records.html ). And just between LAX airport and Hollywood, one of the electronic billboards had a windows NT blue screen during rush hour. That was the best anti-MS ad I have ever seen.

  11. Re:This is SO ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Mr. Butler wants to be paid for his trip he needs to have something which runs Internet Explorer. The IBM expense accounting package requires it.

    And if his Internet connection doesn't work when he gets back he had better be able to demonstrate that fact with Windows (or AIX), not Linux. The helpless desk does not support Linux.