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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union |
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Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:08:11 +0100 |
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:27:06PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> IBM is making money, and they're dumping a *lot* of money into free
> software development. You're just not one of the people they picked.
IBM has their own internal revision control systems, which arch cannot
replace.
> RH is barely over breaking even, but they too donate a lot of code into
> free software.
Focussed on code which they can ship to their customers. Non-critical
development tools aren't a prority and there isn't enough to go
around.
> Novell is in huge trouble. Their main product is dead, and they haven't
> found new products to sell.
Novell == SuSE =~ IBM.
> HP is still choking on the Compaq merger, and I believe they're having
> money problems as well.
Mostly the Compaq merger, and they've never been a software company.
> Sun is also in a huge amount of trouble because of lintel. I'm sure
> they're well aware that they need to either change or die, but you won't
> see them admit that in public.
For the past five years, Sun have been doing their determined level
best to go out of business.
I think they're disappointed every morning when they get into the
office and it's still there.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: the state of the union, (continued)
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union, Tom Lord, 2004/08/18
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union, James Blackwell, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union, Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union, Daniel Stone, 2004/08/25
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