Just a thought, Might IBMs previous involvement in Windows development: A: have burned a few fingers there... B: cause potential legal issues with contributing to WINE?
degs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bret Mogilefsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Mohr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Re: How about sponsoring from IBM? > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > Hmm, something tells me that it's January 2002 now. > > And something else tells me that this is 12 months. > > And then something else tells me that this is quite a time frame. > > > > So what exactly has happened that demonstrates what a huuuuuge amount of > > $1 billion dollars in the hands of IBM can do ? > > > > There are a lot of people who believe that it's been vapornews. > > And I'm about to join them. > > > > So unless you can convince me otherwise... > > Wow, I guess you haven't seen the huge amount of advertising on TV, in > magazines, and on billboards, or the enormous number of Linux articles on > developerWorks, or seen all of the JFS kernel contributions, or the press > releases describing Linux running on all of their big-iron hardware, or a > brochure for all of their Linux training and consulting programs. > > IBM has committed to Linux in a big way, and it's obvious everywhere you > look. If you believe nothing else, believe that IBM is spending $1 billion > to buy Linux LEGITIMACY for use in corporations both through (a) its own > reputation and (b) addressing the areas where Linux is lacking for > production use. Many of these projects are run by IBM rather than > contributing to existing fledgling efforts, but so what? Just because > they're not contributing to every single open source project you know of > doesn't mean they're not contributing. > > That said, it seems like wine is the type of project they would WANT to be > working on, and yes, a little bit of money would go a long way. Before > crying sour grapes (har har), I suggest someone actually approach them > about it. Also, you might see if they are lurking already... Can we see a > count of @ibm.com e-mail addresses for the mailing lists? Anyone from IBM > working on Wine officially? > > > Bret > -- > Bret Mogilefsky * Mgr. SCEA Developer Support * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
