Re: Have you read this?

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> OK, consider these questions:  How many dollars are spent marketing
> Linux?  Answer:  Peanuts in comparison to what companies like IBM
> and MS spend.
You mean that magazines like, Linux Journal, Linux World, Maximum Linux
.... are totally user supported? You mean that all those ads I see for
Vmware, Corel, and Asante systems are all paid for by individual users?
I think not.
Yes, linux hackers donate a large amount of code to their community but
it is Major companies like Red Hat, Yellow Dog, Caldera and Corel who
insure that linux receives the attention it has been getting of late.
Red Hat dumped a large chunk of the profits from sale of their distro
back into r&d, have begun to provide software like Applixware at a
price. 
So IBM spends much more in development, and marketing of the AS/400 as
compared to the linux crowd, given the current status of the 400 what
does that say about IBM's marketing department?

 
> Who provides the most support for Linux?  It's users.
As with any OS at some point users are the best resource for information
and documentation. But it appears you are asking us to do IBM's job.
Make OS/400 open source, make RPG open source. Then, if we fail to
achieve the heights of the linux crowd, you can moan till your hearts
content. 

> Linux and Perl are successes because it's users are willing to make
> contributions to benefit the community, not because some big
> multinational corporation pushed them.  If you want the success of
> the AS/400 and RPG to continue, then perhaps that's the way to
> proceed.
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
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