John R. Ehrman suggested: > consider donating "kernels" to IBM as examples of real-world workloads.
Has something changed? The last time (in fact, the last couple of dozen times) anybody I know tried to give IBM some working code (for various purposes), they were slapped down immediately, if not actually rudely. The reason always given was that the lawyers would not let any IBMer touch (even see, if at all possible) any non-IBM-generated code for fear of contamination and potential future exposure to a lawsuit (on the grounds that "IBM saw it and stole my idea" -- not so much from the company [IBM's actual customer] but from the individual working for the actual customer, who might later claim proprietary rights to some code sequence _they_ wrote). Has IBM fired all the lawyers? -- WB
