The Register on IBM and the RAND. Quotable Quote: "IBM’s a great supporter of Linux if it can avoid pissing on its feet." I’ve always felt it odd anyway that a company that talks about peace, love and Linux can also talk about Electronic Rights Management Systems with a straight face. (Note: Electronic Rights Management Systems are IMHO not bad per se. Their implementation, however, which till today chiefly relies on closed-source OSes and — unforgivably — security through obscurity, is.) IBM is too big to behave as a monolithic entity, some will say. Nevertheless, I think IBM should do some thinking about where it wants to be in the future — eating one’s cake and having it too is not always possible.