I was just reading a couple of links on /. about the history of Windows, David Weise, etc.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/04/1457204&tid=109 In his latest blog entry he talks about what would have happened if Weise had not jumpstarted Windows and MS stayed the course with OS/2. He postulates that IBM would never have felt a need to sponsor Linux and that Linux would not be where it is today without IBM's help: "In my mind, the biggest effect of such a change would be on Linux. Deprived of the sponsorship of a major enterprise vendor (the other enterprise players followed IBMs lead and went with OS/2), Linux remained as primarily an 'interesting' alternative to Solaris, AIX, and the other *nix based operating systems sold by hardware vendors." But I can't really name a single code or feature or anything really obvious that made such a huge difference in my use or enjoyment of Linux. I know they have contributed (EVMS is the only thing I can name at the moment but I use LVM) but it's not really clear how it has affected me (yes, I'm all about ME today!) so I did some digging and found this right at the top of google: http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/ Click on the patches link on the left. Turns out they have their hands in quite a bit of stuff. Also lots of interesting comments to this on Osterman's blog. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig
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