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 be too much to ask IBM to spend 1% of that 1 billion for > Linux on WINE? Of course we are assuming that a full-featured WINE would > DRASTICALLY increase the success of Linux. This would be in accordance > with: > "...with a shared vision of making Linux succeed." quote from > http://www-124.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/ > > If the assumption is true I think those 10 Million would be the best > spent part of that 1 Billion. > Paul, do you know the people in charge of the Linux sponsoring? How > about talking to them about this idea? It would be interesting to hear > what they say. Maybe they even don't know about the WINE project...
Many people at IBM know about Wine; in fact a lot of developers there depend on it everyday (IBM is standardized on Notes for messaging...). Many non developers also know about it, if for no other reason that I've been a pest.<grin> 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 consequence, many people at IBM are understandably very reluctant to contemplate another attack on Windows dominance of the desktop. This doesn't mean that I think helping Wine would be bad for IBM (or I wouldn't have been such a pest), but it may help folks to understand why IBM isn't very focused on Linux as a desktop OS. Jeremy
