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>> folks and people who control the Lotus folks about that port. So, on a
>> smaller scale, what technologies or projects would you like to see for
>> the LTC? I've several ideas of my own but thought I'd see what you
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>I think of Open Source as an excellent remedy for abandonware. Let's
>not talk about Linux ports, that's a red herring. Let's talk about
>Open Sourcing nice technology.
>
>OS/2? PLEASE?
Or at least Workplace Shell - the OO shell. I know a lot of folks who
swear it's the best interface they've ever used (note, I've never used it,
but that's what they swear).
>The IBM Smalltalk engine?
For that matter, as much help as possible getting gcc to be the best
compiler out there. Also, (and I know there's Sun issues here, because
you guys actually have access to the Sun source code), if you can help
Kaffe project build an Open Source JVM, and the GNU Classpath project
build the OS classes needed for Java to properly run. No one makes money
from JVMs, so why not Open Source them?
>Any Lotus app that is no longer sold?
>Any *IBM* product no longer sold?
Agree - when IBM End-of-life's a project, it makes sense to Open Source it
(recognizing that there's possible third-party license issues). You're
not going to make any more money on it anyway, why not give it away?
>
>A world class x86 disassembler for Windows drivers so that we can
>reverse engineer the drivers to devices no longer supported by their
>manufacturers?
Would help. Also, as has been mentioned by someone else, Open Sourcing as
many IBM drivers as possible. Check ESR's Cathedral & Bazaar, Appendix to
Magic Cauldron (titled "Why Closing Drivers Loses a Vendor Money") for a
rationale for why this makes sense.
Other projects I would like to see is IBM's continuing to put money into
making Linux scale extremely well. This could be helped by porting more
of your AIX technologies to Linux. Ultimately, you guys make money on the
HW, not the OS, so it makes sense to reduce YOUR costs for the OS. Also,
the work that's been going on under the Linux/390 project you have to get
some of the OS/390 (or whatever it's called today, I know the s/390 is now
the zSeries) technologies into Linux.
Help on getting Star Office, Gnome Office, and KOffice working well -
they're GPL'd projects, so you're not giving any advantages away, and
since Lotus won't port LotusSuite to Linux (nudge ;), you're not losing
any sales.
HTH
jeff
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Thought for today: silicon n.
Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based
computer systems (compare iron). Contrasted with software.
See also sandbender.
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