For all you young 'uns out there, this is the "old" IBM in all its glory..
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Blue-IBMs-Abuse-Power/dp/0396085156
They are lying thieving bastards because they always were lying thieving bastards. Always.
Ever since the day Tom Watson Snr joined IBM after being fired by NCR because the CEO of NCR though he was going to get them both sent to jail. In one of the first high profile anti trust cases.
In the end they were both saved from the clink by the Dayton, Ohio, floods. You really cannot make this stuff up.
Plus ca change..
(..and yes I deliberately mangled the last bit to annoy the Francophone pedants..)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
