IBM has end of lifed OS/2 and they are only providing support on a paid basis. The prob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Shumaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Has IBM really contributed that much to Linux? Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:02:30 -0800 > > 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. > > > > > > > > -- KPLUG-List mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
