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Comment by wmf

1 day ago

I know what it means. Something isn't automatically bullshit because it's outside your field of expertise.

People love to hate on IBM, ask why it is relevant today, while several of their beloved FOSS projects are in some way, form or fashion, made possible with IBM's money.

  • which beloved FOSS were funded by IBM?

    • They effectively funded the legal defense against SCO that was trying to claim ownership of the IPR to Unix/Linux.

      They bought and funded (and still fund) Redhat which funds Fedora and GNOME and Wayland and systemd.

“I’m able to parse a marketing term” isn’t a great claim here. Pointing out it’s an unclear term largely abused is valid.

  • That's not what I meant. IBM published some scientific papers which explain the details. If you don't have the background to understand the papers and you don't trust the marketing that still doesn't justify rhetorically flipping the table.