Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop?

m5shiv writes "The Inquirer is reporting on an allegedly leaked internal memo from IBM CIO Bob Greenberg discussing IBM's move to a Linux desktop: 'Our chairman has challenged the IT organization, and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux based desktop before the end of 2005. This means replacing productivity, web access and viewing tools with open standards based equivalents.' The enemy of my enemy is my friend?"

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Re:But Peace means War

[Troed]

... purge it from the barbarians? Sure it is - it is exactly the same view of others.

Christ was the prophet who talked about being friendly, God himself always ok'd killing everyone not agreeing with you (if you believed in It, this killing everyone not agreeing with It).

We're down to semantics now. Interesting, isn't it? There's absolutely no more "violence" in the Quran compared to the Torah/Old testament. People claiming "Islam does this and Islam does that" seldom know anything about Islam, and mistake ancient traditions that has nothing to do with the religion with Islam itself.

People in Europe are a bit more open-minded than in the US - which fits well when viewing Scientific American's map of modernity where the Nordic countries (with Sweden in the lead) tops the list. We see "God bless America" and "Allah Akhbar" being the same thing, and that the war between ignorant people in the US and ignorant followers of bin Laden being equally stupid. /me - Swedish