On Tuesday, 09/04/2007 at 10:45 EDT, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot offer MONEY to the IBM team(s) which support 31-bit > "Linux for S/390". But to abandon a platform is counter to > the whole effort behind Linux. (Not that platforms aren't lost.)
Huh? I thought Linux was about [freedom of] choice. If you want to RYO, you can have whatever you want. Nothing IBM, Red Hat, or Novell do changes that. It's just between you and the Open Source community. OTOH, if you don't want to exercise that freedom, that's ok, too. That's another freedom, in fact! There are those out there (vendors) who will build software packages based on a business model that (a) maximizes revenue and (b) minimizes expense. (Shocking, I know, but there you are... :-) ) If IBM actively encouraged distributors to build and ship an S/390 version of the new distros, while at the same time not supporting any of its own software on it, the message would be, umm, mixed at best; misleading at worst. And I'm not sure the non-IBM vendors would appreciate it, either, since they have the same issues as IBM has. The world wants simple answers to complex questions. It is time consuming to answer the question "Does IBM support Linux for S/390?". From one perspective the answer is "yes". From another, "no". You must always crawl under the question and ask - What do you mean by "IBM"? - What do you mean by "support"? - At what point in time? Alan Altmark Speaking for himself and Chuckie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
