[woodandsteel]

>At its heart though, IBM is just another company trying to do things to make the world a better place and to profit off helping the world get there.

No, no, no. A big company like IBM may have started out that way, but what almost inevitably happens over the long term is that selfish, greedy, ambitious, power-hungry, sociopathic people become employees and work their way up to the top (or get hired from other companies where they have done likewise) and turn the company to their own ends. And these ends are generally bad for the employees, the customers, and quite often in the long term the financial well-being of the company.

Now it is true that sometimes you get a reformer at the top like Nadella at Microsoft who honestly wants to do things right, and has the brains to figure out how to do it. That said, it is quite clear that this has not happened at IBM.

[newnewpdro]

> Now it is true that sometimes you get a reformer at the top like Nadella at Microsoft who honestly wants to do things right, and has the brains to figure out how to do it.

What kool-aid have you been swimming in?

[scirocco]

Quite clear that this has not happened at IBM.

Imagine Jim Whitehurst being CEO of IBM in 2 years.