On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: >> >> It could be argued either way. I am sure if IBM put its efforts to >> LibreOffice then I'm sure it would be a great success. So why doesn't >> IBM want to take part when theres a great FOSS community already in >> existence? > > Did you not read my post in reply to you an hour ago? The answer is obvious. > IBM is not an "Open Source" company but a proprietary software company. Those > are two separate business models. That is like asking Microsoft why you can't > have the source code for Windows. Expecting a Leopard to change into a Lion > is simply not going to happen - at least not quickly. >
I did read it - but IBM has decided to happily contribute to the GPL'd OpenJDK - so I don't believe it has to change any spots. Niall > Ralph > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
