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The OS Community Embraces IBM

Posted by michael on from the we-don't-need-another-hero dept.

Joel Dutt writes "IBM... 'the corporation known as Big Blue has seen its reputation in the global open-source community shift from suspect sugar daddy to knight in shining armor.' Newsweek has an interesting article in its latest issue, discussing the relationship between the open-source community and the corporate giant."

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  1. I love a parade by wheelbarrow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IBM recognized that there is a parade going on for open source and they decided to get out in front of it. Good for them.

    Microsoft would like to break up that parade by any means possible. Microsoft would like there to be a Tiananmen Square massacre of that parade. In the Tiananmen scenario, where freedom seeking teenagers are slaughtered by tanks, Microsoft would like to be the Communist Chinese government.

  2. 1 word by r_jensen11 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Newsweek That's right, it's by newsweek. That means it's an article written by an idiot, for idiots. Try to find any citations from the article for any of their facts. In fact, try doing that with any article ever written published by Newsweek. Call me when you find one. Also look how they had to correct the article after the author messed up with SCO's history.