all that is being done is hot-word compliant marketting, not *support*.
now why.. ever so why.. would a large corporation like IBM want to jump on such a popular bandwagon like linux.. oh yeah - cheap marketing! In other words "we're cool - we get it - we use linux" - sounds too much like a slimy politician targeting a growing influential population to me
now if most of the geeks here would stop smoking the blue crack and get over their self-esteem issues they might actually wake up to what's going on here
i get sick of ppl claiming linux to be rock-solid.. gee - i've never seen a memory leak in a stable distro - have you? - and gee - that quality control astounds me - i've never seen bad code in the stable kernel tree..
sure 9/10 geeks agree that it beats M$ in stability, but who doesn't?
Gimme a f**king break.. and this is "*insightful*"??
Both of these companies pay heavy homage to Intel, and Redhat didn't really do anything impressive except collate existing s/w, fudge it ala M$, and write a feature-obsessed package manager.
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now why .. ever so why .. would a large corporation like IBM want to jump on such a popular bandwagon like linux .. oh yeah - cheap marketing! In other words "we're cool - we get it - we use linux" - sounds too much like a slimy politician targeting a growing influential population to me
now if most of the geeks here would stop smoking the blue crack and get over their self-esteem issues they might actually wake up to what's going on here
sure 9/10 geeks agree that it beats M$ in stability, but who doesn't?
Both of these companies pay heavy homage to Intel, and Redhat didn't really do anything impressive except collate existing s/w, fudge it ala M$, and write a feature-obsessed package manager.
when will ppl stop drinking the kool-aid here?
apply IBM methodology
rinse, lather, repeat