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| DATE | 2003-08-14 |
| FROM | Sunny Dubey
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] IBM, Bankers at Odds Over OS/2 Migration Path
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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 08:20 pm, Ruben I Safir wrote:
> This is always the threat to IBM and is the reason IBM has their head up
> their ass.
>
> If IBM doesn't take a major interest in developing a business ready FS
> desktop environment then their server market is going to fail. It is just
> a matter of time.
>
Two things
A) How does this have anything to do with RG's post about IBMs and Banks?
Since when did an ATM need a free software desktop enviornment to function?
A simple frame buffer is all that an ATM needs with your usual set of ATM
related graphics.
B) I would suspect that IBM knows a bit more about selling server machines
than you would. So far they've made a pretty penny all along the way, and
have touted linux like no other major computing company has.
Though IBM does almost nothing with the freedesktop[1], they put out a pretty
impressive amount of other linux software.
http://oss.software.ibm.com/linux/patches/
Sunny Dubey
[1] The only thing IBM does that indirectly effects the free software desktop
is hiring a full time linux DRI hacker. Which they are only one of two
companies to do so (the other being ATI of germany).
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