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IBM to unveil more Linux plans

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-is-good dept.

Over at Financial times, there is a story about IBM which will unveil a Linux plan to invest 200 million dollars, helping companies to write Linux applications. Definitely worth a read. Thoughts anyone?

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  1. Building Blocks of E-Commerce and E-Societcy by s_n · · Score: 5
    This sounds promising.. $200'000'000 is quite some money. now what to do with them in order to complete our universe of free software ?


    Microsoft gave us the answer: look at their microsoft.net/whitepaper, read how they plan to change the world, and then, let's sit together and thinker how we, the people, can make something better, something worth living. We need free, standardized solutions for the following areas:
    • A Privacy/Identity Framework
      A Client/Server solution for identifing people in a secure manner, where *we* control our privacy. This is a must for serious e-commerce, e-governemt.

    • Building Blocks for Net-Applications
      Tomorrows Net will be in the center of tomorrows society. Connected by mobiles, and a myriad of other devices, we will communicate, deal and live together digitally to a great extend. And we do not want to let a single corporate (or governmental) entity control how things will work.

    • Governmental Tools
      The more we "live" on net, the greater will be the need for some control - that's what the government was for the old economy. In the new economy we want to define how this control works, who controls whom, what's right and what's not. This all depends on the infrastructure.
    That's a lot, I know. And all the Biggies (Microsoft, AOL, Nokia, Media, TelCo's, etc.) will be fighting for defining the standards of the tomorrows net-world. We have to act now, in order to define our standards - you do know why, don't you?
  2. What Crap by Jon+Peterson · · Score: 5

    I spend years telling people to write cross platform code and now we get companies like IBM promoting Linux software.

    I hate Linux software, I hate Windows software I'm fed up with this 'one OS to rule the world' crap.

    I want cross platform software. Anything that says it works on Linux but not other unixes I don't touch with a barge pole. I get fed up with crap like "KDE, the popular Linux desktop". KDE runs on multiple platforms dammit, as does Gnome, Apache and all the other poster children of the so-called Linux revolution.

    I have no interest in Linux software, only good, cross-platform free software.

    Grrrrrrrr.......

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