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submitted 1 year ago by Five@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.

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[-] brainfreeze@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Fucks sake, did they really do that?

[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Oh, don't worry. They played for both sides and helped America as well.

And by "helped America", I mean helped facilitate the internment of over a hundred thousand civilians of Japanese descent.

But still, they helped in the war effort, I suppose. Who they helped just depends on your perspective at any given time.

[-] brainfreeze@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Good lord! I had no idea about all that. I appreciate the info.

[-] Serenus@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, IBM supplied a ton of computers to the Nazis during the war, as well as expertise on implementation/usage, from my understanding.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html

[-] lemmyatom@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago
[-] rambaroo@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Yes they're owned by IBM now.

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