On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:27:00 -0500 Carey Tyler Schug <[email protected]> wrote:
> IIRC, when Linux390 first came out, parts of it were object only, closed > source. Has this changed? If not maybe complaints about closed source > in Solaris are not so reasonable. Oh it changed - a mix of arm twists, threatening, and business case. Plus I suspect as IBM better got to grips with the GPL and Linux it no doubt grew more sure and confident of what it did. In the original days IBM was very paranoid - they almost didn't release their S/390 port and they finally put it out about two days before I merged the rival non IBM controlled 370 port into the -ac tree. I know not whether that was co-incidence. To give you an idea of how paranoid it was initially I got some driver code from IBM for review/merging in the first merge up of the 390 tree. It had various blank spaces where comments had been removed by legal. When I asked the IBM guy to at least remove the gaps he asked me to do it as if he deleted the blank lines he'd have to go back through legal again ... So IBM's willingness to get involved and degree of involvement has changed quite dramatically since the 390 port first emerged. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
