[CS-FSLUG] Re: Christiansource Digest, Vol 12, Issue 22

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>    1. Re: Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM (Ed Hurst)
>    2. Re: Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM (N. Thompson)
>    3. Re: Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM (N. Thompson)
>    4. Re: Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM (john-thomas richards)
>    5. Re: Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM (Don Parris)

> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:39:01 -0600
> From: "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM
> To: Bradly McConnell <bradly.mcconnell at gmail.com>,	"A Christian
> 	virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group."
> 	<Christiansource at ofb.biz>
> Message-ID: <200502132039.01686.n.thomp at sasktel.net>
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> 
> On February 13, 2005 05:15 pm, Bradly McConnell wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > Well I just wanted to poll the group and see if anyone has an opinion
> > about Sam Palmisano or Lous Gerstner of IBM, mainly focusing on Sam.
> > Since he has been the driving force for IBM's move toward Linux, I
> > just wanted to see what you guys have to say.
> >
> > I'm writing a paper on his main initiatives that are in place in an
> > attempt to bring IBM back in good favor.  I didn't pick the paper, but
> > I do see it as a slight opportunity to play Linux advocate to a very
> > M$ embedded school.  Which that is an issue upon itself, and I'm
> > transferring to another school for Fall '05.  They won't even
> > acknowledge the existance of Firefox, OpenOffice, or anything "not
> > Microsoft" other than SPSS statistics software, which of course is
> > another very high dollar suite.
> >
> > What I'm mainly looking for is the general attitude towards IBM from
> > the Linux/Open Source community with their recent changes focusing on
> > services and software instead of big clunky iron.
> 
> I heard that prior to Microsoft being the bad guys, IBM was the much
 hated 
> immoral monopoly; however, I wasn't around way back when these things 
> supposedly happened so IBM has a fairly clean slate with me.
> 
If you realy want to get a handle on part of IBM's history, get a copy
of a book,"IBM and the Holocaust", published by Little Brown. Its  a
newish book. I found it in my library. Hitler used IBM punch cards to
keep track of the Jewish population, even after the war started.

Blessings Lee