Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 02:34:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <3DE9E5AE.1FE00C7F@mindspring.com> References: <BA0F128E.15422%pscott@skycoast.us>
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"Paul A. Scott" wrote: > > From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> > <snip> > > IBM bought Whistle Communications for it's product based on > > FreeBSD; can you name a company that IBM bought that had a > > product based on Linux? > > Unfortunately, IBM seems to have closed the door on Whistle. Whistle was a time-to-market acquisition. They bought it, instead of an distributing an internal Almaden project that used Linux, which could not be distributed with Linux because of the GPL (doing so would have granted source code usage under the GPL, which then grants, in perpetuity, the rights to use of IBM software patents -- we had to rip SQUID out of the InterJet II before it was first released, because of IBM patents). > And, IBM is pushing Linux on their Z-series mainframes. Not actually. They are pushing Z-series mainframes to Linux propeller-heads, which is very different, even though on the surface, it appears to be the same thing to someone who isn't looking very deep. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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