It might be small change for IBM, but compared to what most of us would like to produce software for...
Anyway, just because it's OSS *and* IBM are pouring money on it, doesn't prove anything. Actually, it's a pretty obvious first step for a bigass corp towards OS software development. IBM still want to be the ones making this, so they need to spend the resources to get it going - community feeling towards them alone isn't going to spontaneously start it. This way, the foundations are laid the way *they* want, because their paid engineers write it that way, and hopefully they get the OS benefits later.
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It might be small change for IBM, but compared to what most of us would like to produce software for...
Anyway, just because it's OSS *and* IBM are pouring money on it, doesn't prove anything. Actually, it's a pretty obvious first step for a bigass corp towards OS software development. IBM still want to be the ones making this, so they need to spend the resources to get it going - community feeling towards them alone isn't going to spontaneously start it. This way, the foundations are laid the way *they* want, because their paid engineers write it that way, and hopefully they get the OS benefits later.