Re: Have you read this?

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But, then again Hans, I didn't have to pay anywhere near
the amount of money my company paid for OS/400 for my
copy of RedHat 5.2.  For $29.95 I got 3 thick manuals and
a CD with the entire Redhat version of Linux with source code.

I don't even want to think about how much we have to pay for
OS/400.  For that amount of money, IBM can go ahead and
market and fix it themselves.

Regards,

Jim Langston

boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> L.S. wrote:
> >> I want RPG to succeed as much as anyone else here, but
> >> the fact is, this is what we're up against.
> >
> >No sir, what we are up against is the defeatist attitude displayed in
> >rags like News/400 and to some degree by programmers who play follow the
> >leader in their acquisition of skills.
> >Consider, the AS/400 has only been "in" the e-arena for what 2, maybe 3
> >years?
> >Give us time and tools and marketing support like that displayed in the
> >linux community!
>
> OK, consider these questions:  How many dollars are spent marketing
> Linux?  Answer:  Peanuts in comparison to what companies like IBM
> and MS spend.
>
> Who provides the most support for Linux?  It's users.
>
> 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
>

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