🚀 go-pugleaf

That's what's bad about IBM.  People say "What's good for IBM is good
for america", but that's total baloney.  Right now, IBM's sickness is
supposedly dragging down computer stocks.  IBM is to computers as GM
is to automobiles.

Besides IBM's general *slowing* of the computer industry (mostly, IBM
is so big it cannot afford to compete with itself, therefore, IBM must
sit on products and drag down the state of the art to avoid
self-competition), IBM in the past has been *WORSE* than Apple
Computer in trying to squash competition.

IBM lost a famous court suit in the 1960's for their outrageously
monopolistic practices.  They refused to service machines that had ANY
3rd-party equipment installed.  Thus, if you bought 3rd party DISKS,
MEMORY, ETC, and IBM found out, you were dead.  Apple at least has a
"licensed developer" program to support this sort of thing, and has
never been as heinous as IBM.

So let's not hear "IBM's goodwill benefits everyone."  IBM's hands are
tied.  Anything IBM can get away, they will *do*.  Just wait until IBM
sues all the microchannel cloners to death.  The microchannel is a
much smaller innovation than the organization and graphics arts of the
mac user interface.

The business people I know who prefer IBM are elitist snobs.  I
imagine these are the same people who purchase cadillac el doradoes
for the status symbol and name.