IBM

This index deals with Techrights articles about IBM, as well as Comes vs Microsoft court exhibits which offer a glance at the history of Microsoft abuse. For a concise summary of some of the exhibits, see "Petition text - overview".

= Articles About IBM =

2014

 * IBM Shows That Collaborations With the NSA Are a Company’s Death Knell

2013

 * IBM Ignores Small Companies’ Interests, Denies Patent Scope is a Problem, Focusing on Its Own Problems (Trolls) Instead
 * Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls
 * IBM-backed Book on ‘Open Innovation’

2012

 * Kappos/IBM Part of the Patent Monopolies Disease, Enabling Cartels
 * IBM Propaganda for Software Patents Rebutted by Masnick
 * IBM, Microsoft, and the BSA Promote Software Patents in New Zealand Behind the Scenes
 * [With IBM Executive Running the USPTO, IBM Tops Patent Monopolists List

2011

 * Google’s IBM Patents Feast: Good or Bad?
 * IBM Brings OIN-Like Mentality to Europe
 * IBM Needs to Explain Office Suite Patents (and How Bill Gates Was Attacking Interoperability With Lotus, Using Patents Against OpenOffice.org)
 * IBM PR is ‘Shaping’ the News (and Asks to Remain Secret)
 * IBM Takes ODF to Another Level
 * Microsoft is in a Freefall, IBM Surpasses it in Value
 * IBM and Google Still Not Committed to Crushing Software Patents
 * Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
 * US Justice Department Takes on the MPEG Cartel as IBM Distances Itself From Cartel Defenders
 * When Microsoft and IBM Met Intellectual Protectionism
 * Eclipse Foundation Director: “Software Patents Are Basically a Bad Idea”; IBM Still Celebrating Patents
 * Big Blue’s Winter of Shame
 * EMC, IBM, HP, and SAP Dump the BSA

2010

 * With IBM Funding, Microsoft Software Patents Are Targeted by Peer To Patent
 * IBM and Tandberg Abuse Software Patents by Using Them to Rip Off Real Innovators
 * IBM’s Rob Weir Argues TalkStandards.com is Fronting for Microsoft, Steve Mutkoski (Microsoft) to Lobby for Patented Standards at Transformational Government Workshop
 * What IBM, Apple, and Pharmaceutical Giants Could Learn From Andre Konstantinovich Geim
 * Campaigner for Hire Blames IBM for Air Crash
 * IBM Challenges Gartner Group’s Credibility
 * Antitrust Attacks on IBM Carried Out by Microsoft and its “Satellite Proxies,” According to IBM
 * Patents Roundup: FFII Founder on IBM, Shazam Has No Case, Microsoft Wants to ‘Own’ Page-flipping, and Software Freedom is Hurt
 * “Florian Mueller Appears to be Assigned to IBM Whereas Monty Seems to be Pointed at Oracle.”
 * IBM Should Have Gone With rPath
 * IBM Uses Software Patents Aggressively
 * IBM’s Black Helicopters
 * Recommendations for OIN, IBM, and Florian Müller
 * IBM Might Pay Microsoft Even More for Imaginary Software Patents (in Linux) Through SUSE/Novell
 * OpenDocument Format (ODF) Shows That It Would Have Been Better If IBM Bought Sun
 * Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA
 * Why IBM Does Deserve Scrutiny (Updated)
 * IBM’s Day of Shame
 * IBM on Withdrawing Microsoft’s OOXML
 * Patents Roundup: IBM Helps Software Patents Spread to India and Gets Sued for Patent Violations; ELSE Joins LiMo Patent Pool
 * GNU/Linux (or Google and IBM) is Replacing Microsoft

2009

 * David Kappos Can Reprimand IBM for Mocking the USPTO’s Intelligence
 * Patents Roundup: IBM Patents Patent Harvesting, Bilski Still in IBM’s David Kappos Hands to Decide
 * Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux
 * IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
 * The Microsoft Lobby and Heavy Investments Put IBM in Antitrust Probe
 * Masters of FUD: Apple, IBM, and Microsoft
 * IBM’s Latest Filing Regarding SCO Bankruptcy Mentions “Fraud”
 * Important Precedence: IBM Threatens to Sue Microsoft Over Propaganda Site
 * Patents Roundup: What Bilski Means to IBM, Microsoft; Patent Trolls Still Win
 * Patents Roundup: IBM/Dojo, Patent Punishments, and Europe’s Race to Community(-Hostile) Patent
 * Microsoft Fragments ODF While Trying to Paint it as “IBM Thing”
 * IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software
 * Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF
 * Microsoft and Novell (Almost Merged) versus IBM and Sun (to be Merged)
 * Microsoft Pays Professor to Write a Paper Against IBM’s GNU/Linux-Powered Mainframes
 * Has Microsoft Just Invested in Another Lawsuit Against IBM?

2008

 * Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
 * IBM Influence in Novell
 * IBM Vice President: Requires Silverlight? No Thanks.
 * Time for IBM to Take the Lead a ‘Pull a re Bilski’ on Software Patents
 * A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
 * India Might Can ISO; IBM Opposition Backed by LF, Seeks Broader Crowd
 * Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part II)
 * Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part I)
 * Did Microsoft Attack IBM by Proxy to Restrain OOXML Critics?
 * IBM on Open Source, Standards, and OOXML (Video)
 * Does IBM Keep Patent Trolls on Their Toes by Overwhelming the USPTO?
 * Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice President
 * Microsoft et al Caught Trolling — Lying About IBM and OOXML

2007

 * Microsoft Lobbies for OOXML Through Proxies, IBM Does Its Own Legwork
 * IBM’s Standards Vice President Asks About Mono-free Linux
 * Novell Still Behind Red Hat and IBM in Terms of Linux Contributions
 * IBM’s Perspective on the Novell/Microsoft Deal (Video)
 * IBM Uses Novell to Take Market Share From Rivals Like Oracle
 * Novell Sidles with IBM’s Rival, Repeats Mistakes
 * Speculation: IBM Will Buy Novell

2006

 * ECMA Open XML Approved Despite IBM Objection

= Antitrust Against Microsoft =

IBM's story about Microsoft is one of betrayal, abuse, and technical sabotage. There are also actions like litigation or harassment by proxy, e.g. TurboHercules vs IBM. Some of the rogue behaviour was documented in the exhibits below.

Background

 * IBM's software ambitions (Exhibit PLEX0_6195)
 * The IBM/MS partnership in action (Exhibit PX02714)

Microsoft for OS/2

 * IBM Microsoft Joint Development Agreement (Exhibit PX00004)
 * Steve Ballmer: I was enthustiac that we shipped OS/2 (Exhibit PX_8742)
 * Steve Ballmer: Our goal of making OS/2 the next generation OS (Exhibit PX00031)
 * Bill Gates: OS/2 the next standard in personal computing (Exhibit PX00067)
 * IBM Microsoft agreement (Exhibit PX00004)
 * Establishing OS/2 as the dominant workstation standard (Exhibit PX00068)
 * Our OS /2 and a new deal for IBM (Exhibit PX04356)
 * Re-code MS applications for OS/2 (Exhibit )

Studying OS/2

 * Zenith provides drivers for Microsoft OS/2 (Exhibit PX00006)
 * Development of a Learning OS/2 product (Exhibit PX00011)
 * The superiority of PM on OS/2 (Exhibit PX00031)
 * Microsoft attends the 1989 IBM PS/2 forum (Exhibit PX00082)
 * The Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer priority list (Exhibit PX04110)
 * Forked tongues at Redmond (Exhibit PX04182)
 * OS/2 Windows comparison (Exhibit PX05065)

Attack on OS/2

 * Divorce is inevitable (Exhibit PX09527)
 * OS/2 Crush Plan (Exhibit PX02119)
 * Microsoft abandoned their OS/2 customers (Exhibit PX02233)
 * Our Chinese wall never existed (Exhibit px07703)
 * Microsoft is threatening our channel (Exhibit PX07717)
 * Keeping IBM out of the OEMs (Exhibit PX09426_A)
 * Kempin: OS/2 is still alive (Exhibit PLEX0_2494)
 * Kempin: we need a hit team to attack IBM (Exhibit PLEX0_2058)
 * Pitching OS/2 FUD to the Press (Exhibit PX04115_T)
 * Say WindowsPC not IBM compatible (Exhibit PX04490)
 * Compaq going to bundle OS/2 - bad (Exhibit PX05063)
 * EN/ES: Microsoft’s OS/2 Attack Plan (original at: "IBM's ATTACK PLAN") (Exhibit PX01116)

More Conflicts

 * Take the risk against our "even playing field" (Exhibit PX09449)
 * The biggest advantage in getting involved with Microsoft (Exhibit PX00063)
 * Windows first OS/2 eventually strategy (Exhibit PX00086)
 * Lessons learned from Blue Janus (Exhibits PX07456 and PX07454)
 * J. Michael to Bill Gates: port Windows app to OS/2 (Exhibit PX00086)
 * Marshall Goldberg: the IBM trojan horse and the PC Company (Exhibit PX04244)
 * Our spy at IBM (Exhibit PX04267)

Microsoft Lock-in

 * IBM on Microsoft Lock-in (Exhibit PX02282)
 * IBM on designated systems (Exhibit PX02452)
 * IBM Confidential Java Strategy Update (Exhibit PX02712)
 * Microsoft controls IBM's destiny (Exhibit PX04455)

Also see Lotus Exhibits.

Posts:


 * Microsoft praises OS/2, then sabotages it
 * How Steve Ballmer (and Colleagues) Deliberately Sabotaged OS/2
 * Microsoft on Competition: “We Need to Create the Reputation for Problems and Incompatibilities to Undermine Confidence”