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● 10.18.13

●● IBM Does Not Deserve That Much Credit for Power Systems Agenda

Posted in GNU/Linux, Hardware, IBM at 3:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Via Siemens

Summary: Recalling the real goal of IBM’s Linux-themed marketing and the side effects of this strategy

IBM only embraced the “Linux” brand in order to help sell its own hardware (so expensive that IBM does not publicly advertise the price — one has to call or request a quote online). It is merely an investment [1], an attempt to shift to Power Systems [2] all sorts of GNU/Linux or UNIX customers (many still move away from UNIX, e.g. [3]). When it comes to distributions [4], IBM’s Power limits those choices somewhat. IBM is increasing hardware choices in some sense, but this happens to concurrently reduce some distribution choices. Then again, some are not fans of the meme that “Linux is about choice” [5], so to them, IBM’s selfish agenda is irrelevant here. █

=> sell its own hardware

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