Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

[degs]

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?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Mogilefsky" 
To: "Andreas Mohr" 
Cc: 
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 * [e-mail]