Click here to find out why: http://www.techeye.net/software/ibm-...e+headlines%29

I will never purchase another IBM product. They'd have to sign these patents over to the Linux foundation or some other sturdy FOSS organization before I'd even consider buying from them again, which I know is a bit pie in the sky. I hope you feel the same way. Boycott IBM! In 2005, they promised not to do EXACTLY what they are doing now, and they need to be reminded that FLOSS is an important part of their revenue.

IBM is no different from any other big corp. You're a mug if you sign up to theirs, or anybody else's, hype. But if you took the morale high ground with every organisation who does this, you'd have to start making your own hardware.

Well I suppose this just shows that all these 'covenants not to sue' and 'patent pledges' are in fact meaningless.

When the day comes when GNU/Linux is outlawed, I will become an outlaw.

What does IBM make. I don't think I've ever bought anything from IBM, because I never found anything made by IBM.

Count me in to Join the gang... or better...

...the NATION...

I will pee on their graves!!!

me too, they're not ever forcing any M$ BS on me.

TOTAL WAR AGAINST THEM

Kido Butai has been reassembled...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Air..._Japanese_Navy


... when we finish... IBM will have its place only in History Books, and Archeological Ruins...



IBM... Ignorant Bullshit Makers.... ROFL


LONG LIVE FLOSS, LONG LIVE GNU, LINUX BANZAI, SLACKWARE BANZAI

I Suggest we move the whole content of [Other *nix] > [AIX] to [Non *NIX Forums] > [general]


ROTFL

Don't forget to unload all the IBM parts of the kernel too - that'll learn 'em!

Uh... They lost. I suggest people complain to their congressman about IBM's welshing on it's deal instead.

bad IBM, bad! now go to your room

I agree, but this would be the New Kido Butai...

Nuclear carriers carrying an air wing of the newly built Mitsubishi F 3,

nuclear porwered fighter aircraft fitted with high power pulse laser cannons ( my putative design ) fuelled by Hafnium Isomer reactors

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread126317/pg1

capable of sustained Mach 4 cruise speed


, nuclear attack submarines, escorted by Battlecruisers

This will be the meanest, biggest, most lethal pack of steel sharks ever to have crossed the Pacific...

After we deliver First and only strike, for the sake of OSS, Freedom of Choice, and Mankind, call in the politicians, Senators, and Lawmakers and Judges, not to ever allow the Crappy burglars like Mikossoft, and IBM to exist again...


Edit Politicians do not SOLVE PROBLEMS.... at the very most they can PREVENT them... the military SOLVE problems...

You can bribe a Senator,... OK, I do not mean you specifically, but a big corporation's CEO can...

Now let me ask you... does anyone here in this forum believes it is POSSIBLE to bribe a military that is willing to die to defend a cause, for WHATEVER sum of money...??!!

IMHO, the Laws of Men cannot solve the problems created by MEN...

since there is not realy an INTEREST in solving them, and Men's Laws are driven by Interest...

Takes a bit more than that... takes the Laws of Physics...

Can Bill Gates Bribe the amazing fact that E=mc^2, here, or wherever in the Universe... ?

Can any Judge conclude differently...? ... I do not think so...

Thsi is why I believe War can get rid of the Burglars who steal from everybody, and "buy" the legitimacy of their theft from the ruling Politicians... IMHO...

A politician solves a problem as much as a wrench solves the problem of needing to spin a small hexagonal disk with great pressure. Still needs someone to discover the problem, assess the tools required, and then select the proper size/design of wrench for the job. Then the user has to crank down on the wrench (or up, depending), and then replace the wrench back in the toolbox.

Not every politician is the right tool for the job.

The day the military can hold the world to hostage by creating a journaled file system, we'll talk. Until then, restrict yourself to fewer than 64 CPUs, reduce the security rating, ditch the file system and start deleting lines of code from your kernel.