"Timothy Sipples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Now, whether this matters to you or not is another question. Still, I >think it's a small but interesting detail that there are no closed source >Linux drivers for System z, so far as I'm aware. It's all open source now. Forgive me for jumping in late to the discussion - but wouldn't this be an issue of IBM more-or-less controlling the hardware environment? The closed-source drivers you mentioned are all on 'open systems', which refers more to the fact that anyone can manufacture devices for them rather than referring to the software. Isn't that true? I seem to recall x86 systems being called 'open' before the open source movement was widespread... Regards, Dean >- - - - - >Timothy Sipples >IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect >Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z >Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
