Domino for Linux / Future of AIX etc.
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IBM banks on Linux
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First off: There were some comments re putting Domino onto Linux - that Lotus were working on it - you can download the golden code now from http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/dominolinux - if you just read the add at the top of the page. Secondly: If IBM Server division go hell for leather for Linux - what stops them from just terminating AIX - someone mentioned that RS/6000 folks don't make that much money from the sw. There has been a rumour moving around in the UK that AIX will be discontinued anyway sometime during next year.
Has anyone thought why we can afford PC's now? Why is it that a large number of American households have PC's? A good number of these homes have more than one PC... If it had not been for MS then maybe the industry would have taken a totally different route. It is possible that computing would have remained in the hands of large businesses....and the web would only be a shadow of what it has become. If personal computing remained in the greedy paws of IBM, it would most likely have remained a research item because it was IBM and MS that gave us a PC with DOS.....IBM and MS gave us OS/2 as well....and then Windows.... MS has suprisingly continued as a software house...with only a small hardware offering.... I think the time for change is around the corner so I am not suggesting that MS should continue to dictate the future, but the industry needs to stop moaning about it and do something siginificant to halt the pentration of MS into business because this is where the most investment in software is. If that is the objective.... If, however, we expect a better platform / OS then maybe we should be pressuring MS into delivering a better product, because all the indirect discussions will not benefit anyone. So thanks to MS and all insundry who jumped on the PC revolution we are able to afford a PC....without which it would be a very different and less exciting world...
In an Eutopian society, Politics and Government don't mix, neither do Academics and State Secrets. We are not, by any means, living in such a society. All this aside....
Ideas spawned in public institutions or in the minds of academics, novelists (who have inspired many a usuable invention through fiction) or anyone else for that matter are not normally censured in this way.
It seems irrational that everyone is so dependant on US sources for "techincal support" on crypto routines, but to achieve a common PGP style interface for all, it is logical to expect everyone to have the same encoding / decoding to be able to use the "envelope". And as many of the common operating systems development (besides OpenBSD, BEOS etc) reside in the US it would imply that the technology would have to be "imported" to be integrated into the OS before it could be "exported" again...SAME PROBLEM....
The crunch being, in a society where something is oppressed by law (like my homeland used to be) it takes a revolution / a few casualties / a few martyrs / and years in jail to finally overcome such restrictive legislation.
After reading a good number of the postings, it is clear that the only way to open this up would be for someone to actually break the law....The law itself seems to be so open to interpretation that there would be no way for a US citizen to offer assistance, technical or otherwise.
So what do you do...Wear a T-Shirtwith a PGP Algorithm printed on it???? You all know where that gets you.......
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First off: There were some comments re putting Domino onto Linux - that Lotus were working on it - you can download the golden code now from http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/dominolinux - if you just read the add at the top of the page. Secondly: If IBM Server division go hell for leather for Linux - what stops them from just terminating AIX - someone mentioned that RS/6000 folks don't make that much money from the sw. There has been a rumour moving around in the UK that AIX will be discontinued anyway sometime during next year.
Has anyone thought why we can afford PC's now? Why is it that a large number of American households have PC's? A good number of these homes have more than one PC... If it had not been for MS then maybe the industry would have taken a totally different route. It is possible that computing would have remained in the hands of large businesses....and the web would only be a shadow of what it has become. If personal computing remained in the greedy paws of IBM, it would most likely have remained a research item because it was IBM and MS that gave us a PC with DOS.....IBM and MS gave us OS/2 as well....and then Windows.... MS has suprisingly continued as a software house...with only a small hardware offering.... I think the time for change is around the corner so I am not suggesting that MS should continue to dictate the future, but the industry needs to stop moaning about it and do something siginificant to halt the pentration of MS into business because this is where the most investment in software is. If that is the objective.... If, however, we expect a better platform / OS then maybe we should be pressuring MS into delivering a better product, because all the indirect discussions will not benefit anyone. So thanks to MS and all insundry who jumped on the PC revolution we are able to afford a PC....without which it would be a very different and less exciting world...
In an Eutopian society, Politics and Government don't mix, neither do Academics and State Secrets. We are not, by any means, living in such a society. All this aside....
Ideas spawned in public institutions or in the minds of academics, novelists (who have inspired many a usuable invention through fiction) or anyone else for that matter are not normally censured in this way.
It seems irrational that everyone is so dependant on US sources for "techincal support" on crypto routines, but to achieve a common PGP style interface for all, it is logical to expect everyone to have the same encoding / decoding to be able to use the "envelope". And as many of the common operating systems development (besides OpenBSD, BEOS etc) reside in the US it would imply that the technology would have to be "imported" to be integrated into the OS before it could be "exported" again...SAME PROBLEM....
The crunch being, in a society where something is oppressed by law (like my homeland used to be) it takes a revolution / a few casualties / a few martyrs / and years in jail to finally overcome such restrictive legislation.
After reading a good number of the postings, it is clear that the only way to open this up would be for someone to actually break the law....The law itself seems to be so open to interpretation that there would be no way for a US citizen to offer assistance, technical or otherwise.
So what do you do...Wear a T-Shirtwith a PGP Algorithm printed on it???? You all know where that gets you.......