Pretty trivial stuff in the context of an $81.7bn corporation. IBM makes the vast majority of its turnover and profits from closed, proprietary systems, most of which are in decline (it used to be a $107bn corporation).<p><i>&gt; They&#x27;re really not hurting the consumer at all.</i><p>The public pays indirectly to support the extremely expensive IBM systems that, partly for historical reasons, still run almost all Fortune 500 companies. You may say that &quot;They make a ton of money by bilking banks&#x2F;the feds&#x2F;states&quot;, but ultimately it&#x27;s consumers and taxpayers who foot the bills.<p>PS You forgot OpenPower ;-)