The OS Community Embraces IBM

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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Re:I swear I'm not trolling, but

[RWerp]

I wouldn't overestimate the impact IBM machinery had on Holocaust. I live in Poland, where most of the Jews perished (in Aushwitz and Treblinka and other places). The Nazis didn't use sofisticated techniques to hunt Jews. They simply ordered them first to gather in ghettos, put bounty on them, threatened death to anyone offering them any kind of help and then killed everybody in ghettos, and anybody in the street who looked Jewish to them (killed, or sent to a death camp). All of this could be done with pencil and paper, eps. when the beginning Jews themselves helped the Nazis administer the ghettos, thinking they'll survive as a slave labour and that it would be better than Germans running them on their own.

Besides, it is disputable if Germans really planned Holocaust before 1939, or even 1941. It must have existed as an idea in Hitler's mind since years, but no real planning, apart from general harassment and occasional murder (perhaps IBM lend a hand in that --- I don't know).