IBM ends inventor reward program, cancels points for patents
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Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

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  • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
    104·
    10 months ago

    IBM has always been a business-to-business. Their name literally comes from International Business Machines.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      I suppose the several IBM PCs I owned in the 80s and 90s were all just hallucinations. Useful hallucinations though, they taught me to use DOS and to program in BASIC.

      • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I don’t think I claimed they don’t do consumer stuff but business stuff has always been their core business.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        IBM wasn’t interested in PCs, and they were already enshittifyjng by then.

    • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      10 months ago

      A company is not necessarily limited to the activities implied by its name.

      • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Did I say that? OP complained that IBM has become so business oriented recently, but that has always been its core business.

        • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          It’s what it sounded like and I’m not the only guy who saw it that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      They began that way, then they branched into personal computation when that became a thing. Then they took a machine gun to their feet in that market

      • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        It’s was too much hassle for too little profit. Their bread and butter is having regular people not remember they still exist.

    • Tja@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Exactly this. The effort of selling one z Series is not one million times higher than selling a laptop, but the profit is.