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Does Unisys Really Get It?

Posted by simoniker on from the survey-says dept.

Joe Barr writes "There's an interesting story on NewsForge today about Unisys and its new-found love for Linux. In the story, Robin Miller interviews Unisys VP of engineering Anthony Gold and asks such delicate questions as how Unisys 'planned to make amends for its use of GIF patents against open source projects'? It's a good read, and in this day and age of software dinosaurs trying for peaceful co-existence with Linux, a very timely one."

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  1. Patents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me guess... they're embracing linux and having 50 developers workingg on it as a place to embed submarine patents?

  2. Gee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Unisys still in business? They were so clueless, they didn't realize "The power squared" means you have less of a company then when you started when you take half a company and square it!

    1. Re:Gee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Allrighty than.

  3. Re:This is all a Microsoft plan... by logic+hack · · Score: 5, Funny
    anyone who goes to Bally fitness might know what I mean
    Have you forgotten where your posting to?
  4. we seek... peaceful... co-existence!!! by damaskr0se · · Score: 3, Funny

    plops out of cranium, scuttles away

  5. Re:My take: "You can't trust us." by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Funny

    a human being dealt with you like this, you'd be right to shun them. Why is a corporation any different?

    Actually, corporations are treated as individuals under US law, IIRC. So i'm shunning them. Keep your nasty GIF patents where the sun doesn't shine!

  6. Their Jet Blue ad was seriously funny! by the-matt-mobile · · Score: 4, Funny

    The marketing department at Unisys has a lot to learn. Last October, they ran an ad that said:

    We helped JetBlue Airways do something unique with their data: treat customers like people.
    Unisys
    Imagine it. Done.

    This wasn't a terrible ad, except that they ran it right after the JetBlue scandal. It was like they were completely out of touch with what was going on in the industry. I couldn't help but send them a little message asking if I could work for their marketing department, since there was no possible way I could do any worse than the one they presently have.

  7. Re:ES7000s are not good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    They will be happy to sell you some expensive performance profiling tools to help you analyze your performance problems and which will show you that it's your application's fault not unisys's hardware for not scaling.

    Actually, it kind of reminds me of Prime Computer from the late 70's/early 80's. They were so afraid of reducing sales from existing products that they wouldn't allow development of newer and faster products that would accidentally be cheaper and thus less profitable per unit.

  8. Re:Forgive em. by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    I not disputing your opinion since I agree with you, but I'm still waiting to see a madman being wielded by a chainsaw.

    --
    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  9. Re:This is all a Microsoft plan... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't quite understand why your brother would even consider a heath club membership. I'm sure those bears provide ample exercise opportunities.

  10. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    (2) Their attempt to enforce the patent would probably be estopped by the courts.

    ebusiness, ecommerce, and now estoping, will it never end.

    I can't wait for the apple version istop!