I think IBM could contribut a great deal more to open source in general
if the would open up OS2 to Wine and ReactOS.
Tracy R Reed wrote:
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.
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