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| DATE | 2003-08-15 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] IBM, Bankers at Odds Over OS/2 Migration Path
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> A) How does this have anything to do with RG's post about IBMs and Banks?
> Since when did an ATM need a free software desktop enviornment to function?
> A simple frame buffer is all that an ATM needs with your usual set of ATM
> related graphics.
The point it that the end user client, which in this case is the ATM, constrols
the use of the server, not the other way around.
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> B) I would suspect that IBM knows a bit more about selling server machines
> than you would.
Evidently not.
> So far they've made a pretty penny all along the way, and
> have touted linux like no other major computing company has.
>
They've also made bad business decisions before which has cost them billions
of dollars. IBM is certainly not godly, beyond critism, or a member of the Free
Software Sainthood.
> Though IBM does almost nothing with the freedesktop[1], they put out a pretty
> impressive amount of other linux software.
>
On the servere side and they are being broadswiped by Microsoft as we speak.
In addition, what I said was right. They can invest all the money they want on
the server side, but if they don't hammer down a free software desktop, it was ALL
be put to death in 3 months. Microsoft has their hand around their throat and
can execute them any time they choose to.
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