Re: open source IBM i. was Re: From RGP to ¿Java ?

I couldn't imagine the OS being open sourced. Who's going to work on it?
You? Me? There's are some brainiacs in this part of computerdom, but working
on the OS as well as doing everything else? Methinks there are those among
us that don't realistic expectations about what an advanced OS takes for
support and development. And how would you find people that know the OS and
language(s) well enough to maintain it?

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I usually refrain from reacting to this kind of comment - but to suggest
that the IBM labs "...no longer exists..." is just ridiculous.
Especially to the people I will be seeing in the next 2 days at these
purportedly fictional labs!!!

what are they working on? How many programmers work there? Will we
soon be able to remote desktop to the i server, click on an icon to
run the program, which would pop up the green screen and/or display of
the spooled output?

It is good if IBM still has a labs. Much more could be done if the OS
was open sourced.
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