>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
Ok, I understand your point. But I think there is a big difference here. They "put their heart and soul into OS/2". I'm not asking for them to do the same with WINE. All I ask is to contributing a little from their huge Linux budget on WINE. Even if WINE doesn't work out the way everyone is imagining they will not have lost much, only 1% of the Linux budget. Putting heart and soul into it is something that no one is demanging... Roland
