RSSPeace, Love and Vandalism for Linux
By Justin Jenkins | Published January 30, 2002, 11:33 PM
The not too fledgling OS received more support Wednesday at the Linux World trade show from such computer juggernauts as IBM, HP and Compaq. Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, citing both companies' rapid adoption on the Intel Itanium platform, called the proposed HP-Compaq merger "a combination that's good for Linux."
Meanwhile, IBM paid a $120,000 settlement to San Francisco city officials owing up to a graffiti ad spree on various locations around the city. The black-stenciled markings promoted IBM's "Peace, Love, Linux" campaign, depicting a peace sign, heart and the endearing Linux penguin.
"This whole approach of having open standards that are created by the community breaks the mold that IT companies have been following for the past three or four decades," William Zeitler, senior vice president at IBM, said in a pre-speech interview with Reuters. He added that IBM's vision was one of breaking "control points" over customers. By using open standards he said the movement is "going to fundamentally make it impossible" for businesses and people to have such control points in which they can erect barriers and extract margins.
Not the first time IBM gets a fine for linux graffiti...
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|IBM says "By using open standards he said the movement is "going to fundamentally make it impossible" for businesses and people to have such control points in which they can erect barriers and extract margins. "
You could take that to mean "Since we can't control things anymore, no one can" LOL!!
Just a bit of twisted humor today.
James Wheat
http://belprecomputerwizard.com
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|Considering their claim that they have nearly recovered the $1B that they invested into Linux, I think their marketing campaign is working. I'm sure IBM had no problem coughing up $120K in "marketinig fees" heh.
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|Sweet move, IBM.
Stick it to Billy!
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|Not long ago, IBM was the villian. Don't forget that it was IBM who tried to force MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) as the dominant bus type, and made it proprietary so that no other PC brand could use the MCA accessories. Years before that, IBM had a proprietary BIOS and eagerly sought to sue every BIOS cloner out of business. IBM had code written into some software that would make it only work on an IBM BIOS. Funny that IBM is now pushing "open standards". Heh.
When you're not the big guy anymore, I guess that cooperation is the way to survive. Just don't forget history. These tendencies are still ingrained in IBM's culture.
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|IBM had the PC market sewn up until Compaq came along and whiteroom cloned IBM's bios, using only IBM's bios reference manuals heh. I know many folks in IBM's Global Services arm, and the general impression I get from the inside out is that they are no longer the proprietary "evil" corporate giant they used to be.
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|thats what happens when your testicles get stolen. good thing is they really dont have a shot at monopolizing pc's since the only market they really own is mainframes. even still, they're one of the leading technology patent holders and they've got the coolest hard drive technology the worlds seen. microdrives and pixie dust will cut drive prices into fourths and now that the PC world is so diverse you've got all the toys you'll ever need. just an example of how choice in a market place restored order to a would be monopoly. power to linux. i hope it turns into something as user friendly as it is stable
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|NULLedge posted "just an example of how choice in a market place restored order to a would be monopoly"
I wonder what all people consider "choice" in the OS world. For Apple systems, you have Apple's OS, or (finally) a version of Linux for Apple. For the Intel/AMD platform, you have how many ditros of Linux? The different Windows OSes, QNX, the soon to be released LindowsOS, and I don't know what else. Now, I call that CHOICE! Plus, it will be fun seeing what is coming up next, hehe!!
James Wheat
http://belprecomputerwizard.com
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|note: i said "would be monopoly". microsoft is a full fledged monopoly.
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