> Some of the open source people ARE the ones responsible for these
> other OSes. Many times you have people doing the open source development
> on their own time to explore ideas that they cannot while doing
> development work at their day job.
I even saw someone at microsoft.com recently.
I for one would not be surprised to find kernel contributions from IBM;
IBM sells computers. If it wants Linux to support its whizz-bang RAID
controller, who better to do it than IBM? If IBM wants it ro run well on a
many-way SMP box, expect IBM to throw some money and people at the task. I
do know IBM's disappointed with its JDK's threads performance, and I
believe it's working on it. A kernel modification could help.
In recent years, IBM's been pretty agnostic wrt operating systems. Yes, it
has its own. But IBM is nt just an OS/2 company or just an AIX company or
just an OS/390 company; it has applications and other system software too
and wants it to run on everything, Linux included.
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John Summerfield
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