Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-14 Thread Roland
At 02:12 PM 1/12/02 -0500, David Elliott wrote: hahahhahahahahaahahahahahahaha Sorry, ROTFLMAO, see below. Good to know you are having some fun right now! :)) Laughing is healthy! Read up on your computer history a bit son. OS/2 ran Windows apps, and from about version 2 upwards ran all DOS

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-14 Thread Christopher Morgan
Why stop at IBM? We should consider lobbying for support from any companies that serve to benefit from increased wine development. And on the IBM issue, how would we even present the case for wine to them or to any other company for that matter? Chris On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Roland wrote: At

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-12 Thread David Elliott
On 2002.01.11 14:49 Roland wrote: At 07:57 PM 1/11/02 +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote: It looks like IBM spends its money on the products they themselvs use heavily, as well as training and making the name of Linux more popular (aka advertising/PR). Hmm, I think 10 Million on WINE would do more

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:44:44PM -0200, Roland wrote: Just to add a fact to my statements: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4656230-0.html quote: IBM CEO Lou Gerstner announced IBM's $1 billion Linux commitment last month. (this was january 2001) Hmm, something tells me that it's

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Clarke
My attempt to convince you otherwise: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux http://www.ibm.com/linux Paul Clarke, IBM Andreas Mohr wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:44:44PM -0200, Roland wrote: Just to add a fact to my statements:

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Roland
At 08:35 AM 1/11/02 -0600, Paul Clarke wrote: My attempt to convince you otherwise: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux http://www.ibm.com/linux Paul Clarke, IBM Good, so it really seems that IBM is commited to Linux. Now my question is, would it be too much to ask IBM to

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Bret Mogilefsky
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hmm, something tells me that it's January 2002 now. And something else tells me that this is 12 months. And then something else tells me that this is quite a time frame. So what exactly has happened that demonstrates what a

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Jeremy White
Roland wrote: At 08:35 AM 1/11/02 -0600, Paul Clarke wrote: My attempt to convince you otherwise: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux http://www.ibm.com/linux Paul Clarke, IBM Good, so it really seems that IBM is commited to Linux. Now my question is, would it

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread degs
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Re: How about sponsoring from IBM? On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hmm, something tells me that it's January 2002 now. And something else tells me that this is 12 months. And then something else tells me

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread David . Goodenough
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Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:47:56PM -0200, Roland wrote: If the assumption is true I think those 10 Million would be the best spent part of that 1 Billion. It looks like IBM spends its money on the products they themselvs use heavily, as well as training and making the name of Linux more

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Roland
One senior manager at IBM explained it to me as follows: Most senior management at IBM has been with the company for a long time. Most of those went through the OS/2 era. Many people may not realize it, but IBM put their heart and soul into OS/2 - and were burned very, very badly by it. As a

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, One of the better ways to show the potential to IBM would be to find one of their apps that *does* work under WINE and get it demoed to their management. Although it sounds like some of them are already (internally) using Notes under Linux? Hmm ... I have one or two leads I can try

How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-10 Thread Roland
Hello, it seems that IBM is becoming a major Linux advocate. What would be the possibilities of having it sponsor the WINE project? I mean 1 Million dollars is not much for IBM, but it certainly would mean a lot to the development of WINE. IBM would also profit of this. Since Linux runs on

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-10 Thread Roland
Just to add a fact to my statements: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4656230-0.html quote: IBM CEO Lou Gerstner announced IBM's $1 billion Linux commitment last month. (this was january 2001)

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Pilcher
Francois Gouget wrote: Yeah, sure! SMOP! (a small matter of programming) Let's write a pentium emulator with just in time compilation over the week-end. http://bochs.sourceforge.net -- Ian Pilcher