| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| iago | I know that IBM already produces a lot of opensource code (some students I go to school with worked on opensource IBM code for one of their workterms) -- but they're releasing a couple hundred of their patents to Open Source, which is pretty cool: http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=63073 | January 12, 2005, 2:40 PM |
| EpicOfTimeWasted | I appreciate what they're doing, but... [quote]``This will help kick-start the whole open-source community,'' said Bob Sutor, vice president of standards for IBM.[/quote] I'm sorry, but they're not kick starting anything here. | January 12, 2005, 7:12 PM |
| Mephisto | Isn't IBM under completly new management? I heard they were purchased in China by some company or people... | January 12, 2005, 7:59 PM |
| Hitmen | [quote author=Mephisto link=topic=10173.msg94998#msg94998 date=1105559946] Isn't IBM under completly new management? I heard they were purchased in China by some company or people... [/quote] They only sold their PC division. | January 12, 2005, 8:02 PM |
| Mephisto | Didn't know IBM had other things besides PCs. :P Unless they're still marketing OS/2? | January 12, 2005, 8:07 PM |
| hismajesty | [quote author=EpicOfTimeWasted link=topic=10173.msg94991#msg94991 date=1105557157] I appreciate what they're doing, but... [quote]``This will help kick-start the whole open-source community,'' said Bob Sutor, vice president of standards for IBM.[/quote] I'm sorry, but they're not kick starting anything here. [/quote] Not many large companies produce open source code. Sun, Microsoft (somewhat), IBM, who else? | January 12, 2005, 8:20 PM |
| iago | [quote author=hismajesty[yL] link=topic=10173.msg95004#msg95004 date=1105561225] [quote author=EpicOfTimeWasted link=topic=10173.msg94991#msg94991 date=1105557157] I appreciate what they're doing, but... [quote]``This will help kick-start the whole open-source community,'' said Bob Sutor, vice president of standards for IBM.[/quote] I'm sorry, but they're not kick starting anything here. [/quote] Not many large companies produce open source code. Sun, Microsoft (somewhat), IBM, who else? [/quote] Sun doesn't do much opensource, and neither does Microsoft. IBM and Netscape (or whoeve owns Netscape) are the only ones I know of. | January 12, 2005, 8:30 PM |
| R.a.B.B.i.T | Isn't Sun releasing Solaris to open source soon? That's what I heard, at least. | January 13, 2005, 2:04 AM |
| iago | I heard they were going to, dunno about that. I forgot, Sun backs OpenOffice, which is a large project. | January 13, 2005, 2:05 AM |
| peofeoknight | novell does a lot of open source stuff too. They are behind suse, and they are running mono, so on and so fourth. | January 13, 2005, 2:39 AM |
| iago | Being backed by a large corperation isn't always good for opensource, though. The corperation is a "Single point of failure" -- while most opensource stuff has an army of geeks on the Internet, any of whom could take over the project, corperate backed ones don't normally. But eh, any encouraging of opensource makes me happy :) | January 13, 2005, 12:38 PM |
| peofeoknight | Well no one owns mozilla, but their corperate backing goes towards finantial support for their small staff of full timers at mozilla hq to my knowlege. | January 13, 2005, 10:59 PM |
| St0rm.iD | [quote author=Mephisto link=topic=10173.msg95001#msg95001 date=1105560464] Didn't know IBM had other things besides PCs. :P Unless they're still marketing OS/2? [/quote] uh...their pc business is miniscule compared to their real market. | January 15, 2005, 12:15 AM |
| j0k3r | I would like to hear(or read?) about their other business, as I'm sure mephisto would. Would you care to explain it or provide an article? | January 15, 2005, 12:22 AM |
| crashtestdummy | http://www.ibm.com/products/us/ | January 15, 2005, 3:55 AM |
| peofeoknight | IBM makes a crap load of money in the server market. Commercial machines has been what they have always been geared for since they were founded in 1896 (I think it was 96). Note the name: International Business Machines | January 15, 2005, 4:42 PM |
| St0rm.iD | big iron. | January 15, 2005, 4:58 PM |