Joerg Schilling wrote: > Hakan Koseoglu <ha...@koseoglu.org> wrote: > >> On 11 July 2012 13:06, Steve Clark <scl...@netwolves.com> wrote: >> > I think it is more the fact the Oracle seems to be two faced in their >> dealings with foss as opposed to IBM. >> So correct. Way back in 2001, in London I was there when IBM clearly >> stated they are going to spend one billion on Linux on that year. They > > IBM is also two faced with their OSS engagement. > > They treat linux different from others.
Well, but IBM *loves* Linux, and I saw that 10-12 years ago. Let me put it this way: you're one of the world's largest companies, and you make a wider range of computers than pretty much anyone, and you've been doing it longer than almost anyone. Now, would you like to support S/38 (I'm sure some are still running), AS400, RISC6000, AIX, DOS/SP/VME (and I have no idea how many more acronyms have been added since I last worked on one in the mid-nineties), MVS, etc, etc... or run Linux on *everything*, and tell users, when they want to go to a larger system, "sure, same o/s, nobody needs to learn a new system, just recompile your in-house software...." mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos