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Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDL
rumba writes "OSDL announced today that
Andrew Tridgell, Samba developer, joins OSDL
as the lab's second appointed Fellow.
Tridgell will continue to lead global development work for the
Samba project."
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Let's hope not. Best to keep the kernel small and let the specialized tools, (like Samba), do their job as modules or separate applications for those who need it. Those who don't use it won't appreciate the kernel bloat.
"A revolution without dancing is... a revolution not worth having"
IBM opens up a few of their patents ( they have thousands, don't they? ) and Tridgell gets, deservely, funding to continue his work.
How on earth does that spell trouble???
I smell trouble and it smells like Sun and MS ;)
Dude, if Sun wanted to give trouble all they have to do is to stop pouring money into OpenOffice and Java on Linux. I'd argue that Linux middleware market is almost entirely due to Java's ubiquitousness.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
Hardly. IBM's PC division was insignifigant.
IBM opens up a few of their patents ( they have thousands, don't they? ) and Tridgell gets, deservely, funding to continue his work.
Tridgell gets an academic-like job where he's called a 'fellow' while he does business programming that directly competes with companies such as MS and directly benefits IBM, HP, etc. One of the companies that pay for his 'research' is IBM. They (IBM) aren't a charity. And they don't do things because they have a big heart.
Why can't they just uncheck the option? Those who care about kernel bloat are surely compiling custom kernels anyway
I am trolling
Ummm... they're living and working in Beaverton, Oregon USA.
Besides...
Superman was from Krypton.
Aquaman was from Atlantis
Hawkman was from Thanagar
Wonder Woman was from Paradise Island (Amazonia)
They all didn't seem to have a problem being called the Justice League of America. Oh wait, that's right... they were just fictional characters in an age when Political Correctness hadn't yet reached such comic proportions, (pun intended).
What was your point again?
Hence everything is evil because somebody somewhere benefits from every action.
Altruism is a myth. Take what you can get, and nevermind the reasons.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Insignificant to what? We're still talking reselling hundreds of millions of dollars in MS licenses, which they won't be a part of. We've seen IBM unafraid to use Linux on the server side, but desktops are a different story. I think it's significant that they're changing the dynamics of their relationship with MS.
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If everything is selfish, the word "selfish" has no meaning. Words are supposed to communicate, define, delineate. If you've got a definition for a word that renders it completely useless, that's probably not the definition people are using.