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Why not?
Intellectual property is what keeps a technology company running.
I'm more surprised, as others have said, that people are
astonished/annoyed/upset that IBM is keeping secrets, than the fact that IBM
has secrets.
Any large company has trade secrets.
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Now that Big Blue is pretty much alone in the mainframe processor
market, I'd like to see them release information on what exists today.
With the caveat that any new competition that enters the market would
trigger a renewed round of privacy for any future improvements. Rather
like establishing and publishing a checkpoint.
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