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Re: [News] Microsoft Hires IBM Guy, Purges Unflattering History?

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Hires IBM Guy, Purges Unflattering History?
  • From: "amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:19:39 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Usenet Monster - http://www.usenetmonster.com
  • References: <2038027.rBMesMZ3lK@schestowitz.com>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:482021
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:2038027.rBMesMZ3lK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Edited Out of History
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | So it's with some surprise that I see IBM's former Fellow,
> | "Father of Websphere" Don Ferguson, is already in the process
> | of being airbrushed out of history. His blog already redirects
> | to the home page for IBM's dW bloggers (he's still listed as I
> | type this) despite the cached version showing no signs of being
> | any less defensible than it was a month ago. You can see an older
> | version in WayBackMachine. It seems that, now he works for
> | Microsoft, his views are retrospectively unacceptable. Or is
> | there another explanation?
> `----
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/edited_out_of_history

You seem to have misinterpreted the article.  Apparently when Ferguson left 
IBM for Microsoft, it was IBM that erased his wisdom from the archives. 



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