So we here lots about how IBM is a big supporter of the linux OS.  Granted, “Linux” is different than “Linux distribution”, but let's not mince words here.  IBM says they support it all.  And mostly, they do.

Unless you want to look at the Live Scores on the US Open 2007 tennis site.  You see, if you have firefox 1.5 and the flash 9 rcX release, this isn't sufficient to be supported on this special feature  – which, by the way, worked just fine during Wimbledon on the Wimbledon web site.  It's fairly obvious that the problem isn't that I don't have the right versions of application layer tools, but that these tools are not running on the correct OS.  I'm bummed.  I really enjoyed following play during work hours using the Wimbledon live scores feature.  But try to do that on an American event – no go.  Makes you wonder, eh?

So just who is running the show here?  IBM, or some other evil empire?  One would wonder, given IBM's stance on the open source world but it's failure to actually support it in practice.  Specifically on a site run inside the US.