Out in the competitive market and company who places major restrictions on their products which their competitors don't won't last long.
UnitedLinux is a group of companies commoditising a shared distro. Some of them will add stuff requiring per-seat licensing. Some won't. Buy the one you want, don't buy the one you don't want. They'll get the message pretty quickly. Remember none of these guys have a monopoly, they can't just change licensing terms and have eneryone swallow it like Microsoft (come to think of it, even they can't do that all the time!)
Some select bits aren't being sold off so I suspect that anything very cool will be kept. Except of course the mass of IP which will be going will impact any current research they're doing.
Personally I'm interested in what'll happen at Hursley in the UK (used to work there) where IBM SSG have a big department - hopefully it'll continue. Hursley has the world's first harddrive in its "museum"
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Out in the competitive market and company who places major restrictions on their products which their competitors don't won't last long.
UnitedLinux is a group of companies commoditising a shared distro. Some of them will add stuff requiring per-seat licensing. Some won't. Buy the one you want, don't buy the one you don't want. They'll get the message pretty quickly. Remember none of these guys have a monopoly, they can't just change licensing terms and have eneryone swallow it like Microsoft (come to think of it, even they can't do that all the time!)
Some select bits aren't being sold off so I suspect that anything very cool will be kept. Except of course the mass of IP which will be going will impact any current research they're doing.
Personally I'm interested in what'll happen at Hursley in the UK (used to work there) where IBM SSG have a big department - hopefully it'll continue. Hursley has the world's first harddrive in its "museum"