I looked at the article. They seem to have a single-minded view that Linux is going to, actually _must_, "fragment" or fork at some point in the future. That colors the rest of their analysis for me, as it seems to indicate a severe lack of understanding of the Linux community. There have always been various functions, patches, whatever that were not part of the official source tree. I don't see that going away. I also don't see it as necessarily leading to a permanent forking of the code. Even if it does, Linus owns the rights to the Linux trademark, and if someone goes too far overboard, he has the ability to prevent them from calling it Linux. I would be surprised if it ever goes that far.
One of the names of the Meta analysts jumped out at me. That's a "blast from the past" for me, and not a pleasant one. If this is the same person I knew back in the late 70's, I would have even less faith in Meta than I do already. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mainframe Linux is Dead. Long Live Mainframe Linux > Historically Meta have always been very anti Linux ... http://www.itworld.com/nl/it_insights/09042001/pf_index.html ? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
