IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses::Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

  • aname
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    510 months ago

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

    • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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      510 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
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        710 months ago

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

    • @XEAL@lemm.ee
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      410 months ago

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

      • aname
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        510 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.ee
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          110 months ago

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

          • aname
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            010 months ago

            That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      310 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
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        110 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.