Which is why they, and many other large corporations have PR departments. They understand how 'the perception of' goodwill towards man affects their sales AND stock.
Erik Johnson On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/25/09 3:43 PM, "Mark Post" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If it hadn't been for the cooperation IBM >> received, the open source proponents inside of IBM would never have gotten >> the >> code released. Sometimes compromise and patience win in the end. It >> certainly did this time. > > Along with a number of customer-written white papers that explained how they > were going to lose big time money and street credit if they didn't. > > Call me a cynic, but there's not a whole lot of good will 'tward all mankind > involved here. It took people that knew how to manipulate the IBM system and > worldview to get their ends accomplished. Some of those people were inside, > many more were not. Some one had to show them how it affected their bottom > line before anyone had a chance to get that stuff open sourced. > > Guess I'm just in a bad mood, but there's no good will involved here. As the > Book of Chuckie 5:23 tells us, it's a business decision that moves IBM. > Nothing personal. > > -- db > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
