Marcel: Thanks for the article! I have always wondered if the Linux community could be dominated by one player and if this could lead to a second MS like tyranny.
The nature of software with user's reliance on the vendor to be a good citizen, ie not locking them in, keeping the interoperability, has created a climate where monopolies seem naturally to be created (first IBM then MicroSoft). This is why in the long term I think that OS's, code for infrastructure protocols, and file formats must have open source code with a licence that does not encourage forking, ie something like the LGPL. Trying to lead events like what this article is suggesting that IBM is doing to is always difficult because of the law of unintended consequences, but it seems like the eventual outcome is likely to be what they predict; a kind of mutual benefit through investing in Novell/Suse. I'm interested in anyone else's thoughts. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcel Lecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:57 pm Subject: [clug-talk] Article :: IBM's Linux Consolidation plans > http://www.techuser.net/index.php?content=36 > > Nice read. > > Marcel > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to > which it is > addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged > information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended > recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or > take action > relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent > reply,should be deleted or destroyed. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
