Hello,
I'm just curious. Why is no one talking about the possible experience to be
gained from IBM? Because the legal problems are too great, therefore stalling
the relationship? Or is IBM unwilling to help (since it sounds they have much
more to loose in the relationship)? Or is that it's relative new and no one has
stepped up to the bar?
It just feels like they are in the pocket and could lend a BIG helping hand (if
not code). It seems like they have made some strong repairs and their advise
could prevent some wasting of resources (which it appears java-linux/Blackdown
team is short on).
Does anyone know about an official IBM contact person? (such as Calvin Austin
(As of last week I am covering as the Sun/Java/linux contact person so you can
email me if you need to)).
Cheers Tod Matola....
OCLC
http://purl.oclc.org/net/tod
Michael Sinz wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:09:51 -0400, Tod Matola wrote:
>
> >Here's a question, Has IBM (and/or Blackdown) interacted at all?
>
> Yes, but there are some big issues - IBM has their own GC/Heap management
> system and their own JIT (and it is a very good one) IBM also uses this
> code base on many other systems (not just Linux or Unix) and has some
> intelectual property issues with engineers in their core technology touching
> GPL or other open source code in the same field of technology as it could
> "infect" their core technology and cause them to loose it.
>
> Now, there is nothing wrong with them listening to what issues we
> ran into and what we did to work around/past/through them. And the
> same goes the other way around.
>
> BTW - This is all due to legal issues and I am not a lawyer so the exact
> representation of the problem is most likely more complex than what I
> just outlined.
>
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> Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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