Re: open source the IBM i kernel. Was: Why i??? NEED YOUR INPUT -- MIDRANGE-L

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Whoops, sorry about that I misread it. They do invest in their
languages, but for better or for worse, they don't really care about
being backwards compatible either.

Now, for Davids and the rest of the lists sanity, I'll leave it at that.
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James R. Perkins

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:59, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM, James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Over what period of time did Microsoft invest billions into OSS? I
don't have any numbers, but I would say IBM spend loads of money on
open source.

James, I did not claim MSFT invests in OSS. I said "... microsoft
invests heavily, over the long term, in their OS, languages,
frameworks, tools. ..."

-Steve
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