IBM Wants Linux

jsse writes "In a news conference IBM's senior vice president Steve Mills said 'the company will gladly drop its version of Unix from servers and replace it with Linux if the software matures so that it can handle the most demanding tasks.' Now the Giant, along with many other companies, jump to Linux bandwagon. The question is wether this bandwagon is capable of carrying a Giant that huge. Or the question is: can Linux beats AIX?"

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Linux == Communism and now Linux == Naziism too ?

[Flabdabb Hubbard]

You have to wonder whether support from IBM is a Good Thing (tm). Consider that IBM used to be the computing world's most hated corporation (before the advent of Micro$oft).

IBM threw the PC market down the drain by licensing its OS to third parties. Who is to say that they won't do exactly the same thing with Linux ? Suppose they spend all that cash improving Linux, and then some other corporation comes along and takes that work and packages it up in an ISO image and sells it for next to nothing like cheapbytes did to Redhat ?

IBM has also got a somewhat questionable reputation for Naziism, and apparently some of the computers used to facilitate the Holocaust were supplied by IBM. Open Source software has enough trouble with Stallman the Communist without people associating it with Naziism as well! Imagine the scene: You try and install Linux on your mom's PC. She looks at you in horror "I don't want any Nazi/Commie operating system on my PC. Re-Install W2k this instant!!!

Yeah. I can see it now. Linux == Nazism == Communism.

Re:Linux == Communism and now Linux == Naziism too

[Flabdabb Hubbard]

Another interesting link on IBM's facilitation of the Holocaust is here.

I am somewhat perturbed that slashdot sees fit to sing the praises of IBM, especially considering that many of the nerds and geeks who post here are not white, and would therefore quite likely have been victims of the Holocaust had it happened in America.

I suppose I should be used to it by now. Where Linux and Free Software are concerned Slashdot disengages its brain.

kewl

[levinas]

Now I can look forward to kernel hackers incuding support for more high end hardware I've never heard of(S/390 support anyone) Which is only relevaint to a couple of geeks at stanford. Rather then creating ,say, a proper debugger.

Still I spose its better then having them create a text based adventure game to compile a kernel.

well then they better ask

[prisoner]

Stallman. He is, after all, in charge of the entire open source effort.

Never trust IBM with software visions (ahem, OS/2)

[cybrthng]

It was only 2 years ago when IBM dropped a huge majority of custome solutions for Windows NT platforms.

It was 3 years ago when the ball dropped on the infamouse (and powerfull) OS/2 solution. (well, someoen over at http://www.ecomstation.com is picking up now).

IBM Changes software and solutions like there is no tommorow. If it isn't Calle E-Gizmo then IBM will change it to that.

IBM Supporting linux is great, hooray! woopie. But don't expect much. It was the users who supported IBM and it was IBM who told the users to shove off. Hopefully that won't happen again.

AIX just sucks so i don't know why they're saying anything about linux competing with AIX. AIX has more patches then you can shake a stick at, java is flaky at best and supported libraries are rare at most.

Oh well.

How could they do that?

[duffbeer703]

They would have to put up with the primadonna Linux kernel "community".

Who has the time to deal with people who demand one page patches only to the most bloated kernel in OS history.