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« When you steal a Japanese's credit card, he can't make a call to cancel it \| Back to TimYang.com \| Slashdot bans logins from Malaysia » Thursday April 28 IBM takes a homophone too far The MD of IBM's Venture Capital Group tries to contrast open source with open standards. She completely fails to realise they are apples and oranges, but she succeeds in misdirecting the interviewer to support her agenda. The interview contains this little gem: And what open standards allow us to do is pick the best components that we can find and then integrate them into specific solutions that will translate into the business performance improvement that a customer is willing to invest their IT dollars on today. Did she accidentally add obfuscation cream to her coffee this morning? http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=P8851_0_1_0_C Comments Trackback URL for this entry http://timyang.com/pingserver.php?p=tb&id=595 No trackbacks exist for this entry. No pingbacks exist for this entry. 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