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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-does-watson-think dept.

The CEO of IBM wrote an open letter to Trump soon after the election. IBM had a long tradition of staying out of politics, but I don't see any way to interpret this letter that isn't some sort of endorsement of Trump's administration, partly because it barely alludes to the latest buzz-phrase "cognitive solutions in the cloud", At the optimistic end, maybe it's just saying IBM doesn't care as long as Trump lets the corporation make bigger profits, but at the pessimistic end it could be taken as a warning to IBM's employees and business partners to keep their mouths shut if they don't like the Donald.

Has your employer done anything along these lines? I'm guessing that Ginny Rometty's letter was emailed to all hands and posted on the intranet, as well as the public posting at https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/ibm-ceo-ginni-romettys-letter-u-s-president-elect/ for everyone. Can anyone inside IBM confirm? If you've gotten something along these lines from your employer, do you care to speculate about why? Or even say how it made you feel?


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:29PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:29PM (#434933) Journal
    And which also doesn't happen all the time. Far more corporations don't do that precisely because it causes trouble.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:57PM (#435057)

    khallow, hey it's me the guy who you met at the slashdot meet up--we hung out in vancouver i think later? can u drop me a line at scybert at gmail dot com ? be nice to catch up.