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IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses (www.theregister.com)

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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

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[-] lauha@lemmy.one 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 8 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.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 7 points 8 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.ee 2 points 8 months ago

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

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 5 points 8 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 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago

That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 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.ee 1 points 8 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.dev 1 points 8 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.

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