[Am-info] Look out IBM, MS is after your Linux

[Hans Reiser]

John J. Urbaniak wrote:

>  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html
>
>MS is terrified of Linux.  IBM supports Linux (today, anyway).
>
>Now, I've always suspected that Gerstner took a bribe from MS to kill
>OS/2 (Remember the testimony "How much do we have to pay you to get you
>to screw Netscape?") .  I betcha he gets threatened with revelation of
>that treachery from the boys in Redmond soon.  Little leaks to the WSJ
>and other publications of Lou's secret MSFT options holdings ...
>
>I can't wait for the cowardly deeds to be publicized.  I can't wait for
>the lawsuits against IBM for fraud and deceptive practives from OS/2
>users, customers and partners like me, who were lied to by IBM.
>
>Of course, the alternative would be for Gerstner ("Sir Gerstner") to
>cave again.
>
>We might see a breathtaking reversal of IBM's support for Linux as
>well.  In either case, it will be ugly for IBM.  Good!
>
>John
>
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I don't think you understand.  The decision by the folks who sold the 
hardware systems to not support the folks who wrote the software was not 
likely to have been made by gerstner, but rather ignored by him due to 
incompetence of the sort large companies are filled with.  Don't look 
for extreme answers unless extreme incompetence is it.  Extreme 
incompetence is the only extremist answer consistently accurate in 
describing organizations.  Much more likely is that one VP hated another 
VP intensely, though I don't have knowledge of that being true in this 
instance.

Hans