IBM would fire this dude

Bob Congdon referenced the Mini-Microsoft site earlier today.

I finally got a chance to check it out. While I don't have much of an opinion of what goes on at MS, my interpretation of the IBM business conduct guidelines leads me to believe such public speech about IBM would be grounds for termination.

If you've noticed, most IBM bloggers (all I know except for Ed Brill who's job it is to communicate) don't talk much about work. It's even sketchy to talk too much about our technology, you wouldn't want to be accused of leaking intellectual property or of skewing the closely crafted marketing message.


I think this close-to-the-vest sort of environment is big part of why old Iris direct communicators like Gary Devendorf or Steve Brown don't work for IBM anymore. IBM just doesn't value that grass roots sort of communication.


Heck, I may have said too much on this topic already.

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