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by coldtea 2902 days ago
>In the late 90s/early 00s a lot of people had seemingly infinite trust in IBM.

You probably conflate that period with the 60s-70s.

In the late 90s/00s it was when IBM regained some mojo by adopting Linux and OSS and building on top of them.

It was not its time of "infinite trust", but a time of a recovery into "some trust".